WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:17.010 Wave our bibles around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad, and let's say this together say, heavenly Father, I am conscious of your presence, more and more aware of the Word of God and the Spirit of God moving in my heart and mind. 00:00:17.010 --> 00:00:29.448 I'm changing from faith to faith, from strength to strength and from glory to glory to affect this present darkness. 00:00:29.448 --> 00:00:34.331 I'm letting my light shine in Jesus' name. 00:00:34.331 --> 00:00:36.799 Amen, you can be seated. 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:44.509 Let's turn in our bibles to the gospel, mark, chapter four, and while you're turning, get to Luke 17. 00:00:44.509 --> 00:00:49.962 We're gonna talk, see, some things that Jesus talked about today. 00:00:49.962 --> 00:00:56.350 Mark four, in verse 26,. 00:00:56.350 --> 00:00:59.219 You know, mark is the awesome chapter. 00:00:59.219 --> 00:01:02.765 I don't know how many times I've preached out of it, but it's the sower sows the Word. 00:01:02.765 --> 00:01:10.426 It's one of the most revolutionary teachings that Jesus taught the sower sows the Word. 00:01:10.426 --> 00:01:23.509 And he talks about four possible results, three of which were crop failures, one of which had success, and even that success was 30, 60, and 100 foles that varied. 00:01:23.509 --> 00:01:41.528 And then he goes on to say in verse 26, and he said, so is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up. 00:01:41.528 --> 00:01:46.527 He knoweth not how, for the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself. 00:01:46.527 --> 00:01:54.326 First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 00:01:54.326 --> 00:02:04.406 But when the fruit is brought forth my margin says when it's ripe immediately he put it in the sickle. 00:02:04.406 --> 00:02:05.188 Who's he? 00:02:05.188 --> 00:02:12.526 Well, the one that sowed the word, the one that sowed the seed into the ground and went to sleep night and day and waited. 00:02:12.526 --> 00:02:18.364 Immediately he put it in the sickle and said because the harvest has come. 00:02:18.364 --> 00:02:22.888 And then let's look over at Luke 17. 00:02:22.888 --> 00:02:31.687 And I was just gonna read, starting with verse five, but really I wanna start with reading verse one. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.614 Jesus is talking about little children. 00:02:36.614 --> 00:02:42.266 Then said he unto the disciples it's impossible that offenses will come. 00:02:42.266 --> 00:02:44.907 Go unto him through with whom they come. 00:02:44.907 --> 00:02:55.467 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and be cast into the sea than he should offend one of these little ones. 00:02:55.467 --> 00:03:01.525 Talking about little children, take heed to yourselves. 00:03:01.525 --> 00:03:05.042 If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him. 00:03:05.042 --> 00:03:06.325 If he repent, forgive him. 00:03:06.325 --> 00:03:16.110 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, turn again to thee saying I repent, you shall forgive him. 00:03:16.110 --> 00:03:24.265 The apostle said unto the Lord increase our faith Seven times. 00:03:24.265 --> 00:03:25.389 In Matthew. 00:03:25.389 --> 00:03:33.013 He said 70 times seven, but don't leave out the part of the other person. 00:03:33.013 --> 00:03:36.890 They have to repent and say it, they have to own it. 00:03:38.425 --> 00:03:42.225 I think we get so religious about forgiving them forgiveness, and I believe in forgiveness. 00:03:42.225 --> 00:03:44.805 I don't believe in hating people, I don't believe in trying to get even. 00:03:44.805 --> 00:03:49.769 But I mean, you know, come on, let's not, let's find out what Jesus really said about it. 00:03:49.769 --> 00:03:56.549 So what was he talking about originally? 00:03:56.549 --> 00:03:59.664 Well, he's talking about offenses coming, and especially to children. 00:03:59.664 --> 00:04:04.162 This is one of the things we can get so offended about with our children. 00:04:04.162 --> 00:04:10.426 When they get hurt, when a crime is committed against them, it's pretty hard to forgive. 00:04:10.426 --> 00:04:16.987 We see a murder rate is shot up in Harris County and people are losing family members. 00:04:16.987 --> 00:04:21.906 It's just tough your mother having to bury your child that was shot for no reason. 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:34.324 So he said take heed to yourselves, be a person of forgiveness. 00:04:34.324 --> 00:04:36.507 We can all agree that's important. 00:04:36.507 --> 00:04:40.310 And they said Lord, increase our faith. 00:04:40.310 --> 00:04:51.464 And the Lord said if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say under this sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the sea and it should obey you. 00:04:51.464 --> 00:04:54.887 And of course the other version says it would. 00:04:54.887 --> 00:04:56.713 You would say and it would obey you. 00:04:58.543 --> 00:04:59.326 Sick of my entry. 00:04:59.326 --> 00:05:01.346 What's he talking about? 00:05:01.346 --> 00:05:02.483 We'll talk about it in a moment. 00:05:02.483 --> 00:05:07.660 If you just had faith as a seed, see quit thinking about the size of the seed. 00:05:07.660 --> 00:05:13.891 The size of the seed is always smaller than what it is that you're believing or speaking against. 00:05:13.891 --> 00:05:23.660 I mean, if you're wanting to forgive somebody that just killed your child, it seems inconceivable that you could do it. 00:05:23.660 --> 00:05:25.620 How do you do it? 00:05:25.620 --> 00:05:38.507 You do it by faith, you do it with words and you plant it, and it seems empty at first because you don't really feel like you mean it. 00:05:38.507 --> 00:05:42.269 But you mean it in your heart, not your head. 00:05:42.269 --> 00:05:43.483 Are y'all with me now? 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:50.620 He said if you just got faith as a grain of mustard seed, you say to the sick of my entry be plucked up by the root. 00:05:50.620 --> 00:05:52.947 It will be planted in the seed of bayou. 00:05:52.947 --> 00:06:05.666 But which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle will say unto him bind by when he has come from the field, go and sit down to me, servant, you must really be famished. 00:06:05.666 --> 00:06:21.466 And will not rather say unto him make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thyself and serve me until I have eaten and drunk him, and afterward you shall eat and drink. 00:06:21.466 --> 00:06:28.449 Does he think that servant, because he did those things that were commanded him? 00:06:28.449 --> 00:06:30.648 I trow not. 00:06:30.648 --> 00:06:32.660 That's why I like the King James. 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:34.485 It has words like troll. 00:06:34.485 --> 00:06:37.625 I trow not. 00:06:37.625 --> 00:06:42.396 So likewise, ye, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded. 00:06:42.396 --> 00:06:44.660 You say we are unprofitable servants. 00:06:44.660 --> 00:06:47.298 We have done that which was our duty to do. 00:06:49.389 --> 00:06:54.329 So today I wanted to preach a message entitled Faith, the Believer's Servant. 00:06:54.329 --> 00:06:56.105 I want to come at this. 00:06:56.105 --> 00:07:00.660 I teach a lot about faith because we're the terminal generation. 00:07:00.660 --> 00:07:02.526 I mean, jesus is looking for faith. 00:07:02.526 --> 00:07:03.329 Amen, isn't he? 00:07:03.329 --> 00:07:07.086 He said, when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith on the earth? 00:07:07.086 --> 00:07:15.148 He prophesied how things were going to be in the last days that people would be lover of their own selves, they'd turn away from the faith, that there would be a great departure. 00:07:15.148 --> 00:07:24.004 There's been a great departure away from God, but in the middle of that there's been a great drawing near and God's not finished. 00:07:24.004 --> 00:07:27.024 I said God's not finished. 00:07:27.024 --> 00:07:39.423 I believe we've got one more big revival to come, because I know that the reason I say that is not because I have confidence in man, I just have confidence in the ability of my heavenly Father to be a great farmer. 00:07:39.423 --> 00:07:43.369 He knows how to bring in a crop. 00:07:43.369 --> 00:07:45.565 That's the reason I say what I say. 00:07:45.565 --> 00:07:53.185 If I went by how it looked, I would say it's all over, but I don't go by how it looks. 00:07:53.185 --> 00:07:56.423 All right. 00:07:56.463 --> 00:07:59.660 So faith, the believers serve it. 00:07:59.660 --> 00:08:01.648 Notice what Jesus said. 00:08:01.648 --> 00:08:08.012 They said now Lord, you want us to forgive seven times in a day. 00:08:08.012 --> 00:08:10.346 Lord, increase our faith. 00:08:10.346 --> 00:08:14.317 You've got faith. 00:08:14.317 --> 00:08:16.009 Plant it, See. 00:08:16.009 --> 00:08:16.915 Faith is a seed. 00:08:16.915 --> 00:08:17.660 What do you do with a seed? 00:08:17.660 --> 00:08:21.627 Eat it, leave it on the shelf? 00:08:21.627 --> 00:08:23.386 No, seed means planted. 00:08:23.386 --> 00:08:24.348 It didn't plant. 00:08:24.348 --> 00:08:27.449 You know he really, in so many fashions. 00:08:27.660 --> 00:08:29.547 He had already preached Mark, chapter four. 00:08:29.547 --> 00:08:31.307 This is Luke 17. 00:08:31.307 --> 00:08:31.880 This is way. 00:08:31.880 --> 00:08:35.659 After he'd preached Mark chapter four, he's expecting them to know what he means. 00:08:35.659 --> 00:08:37.607 And they don't know what he means. 00:08:37.607 --> 00:08:40.187 So he said you know, pull up a rock. 00:08:40.187 --> 00:08:44.591 Let me tell you again, sit down here. 00:08:44.591 --> 00:08:47.727 Let me tell you again what I mean. 00:08:47.727 --> 00:09:07.166 You don't need more faith, you just need to plant the faith you got, because anytime you're facing down anything, the seed is almost always insignificant to the thing that you are opposing, isn't it? 00:09:07.166 --> 00:09:14.611 So the kingdom operates on the seed. 00:09:14.611 --> 00:09:17.845 So, in principle, mark, chapter four, that's the whole kingdom operates. 00:09:18.779 --> 00:09:24.969 Everybody say I'm a kingdom person, I'm a participator in kingdom business. 00:09:24.969 --> 00:09:33.549 See, it's incumbent on you to get this straight about your faith and quit worrying about whether you have it or whether you've got enough of it or anything like that. 00:09:33.549 --> 00:09:39.543 It's more important for you to plant it, just plant it. 00:09:39.543 --> 00:09:42.783 Are you with me now? 00:09:42.783 --> 00:09:52.754 So you know, really, if Satan wasn't involved I mean you plant one seed, it produced forever. 00:09:52.754 --> 00:09:53.659 Nothing would ever hinder it. 00:09:53.659 --> 00:09:56.509 I mean it just keep producing, keep producing, keep producing. 00:09:56.509 --> 00:09:58.639 Plant thumb over here, it'd keep producing. 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:00.446 You talk about productivity. 00:10:00.446 --> 00:10:05.659 He's the one that the devil's the one that hinders and stops. 00:10:05.659 --> 00:10:10.683 I mean, if you'll look at the three crop failures, all of it had to do with the devil. 00:10:15.386 --> 00:10:16.659 Have you ever bought some seeds to plant? 00:10:16.659 --> 00:10:19.659 See, I learned a long time ago that that's the slow way to do things. 00:10:19.659 --> 00:10:21.304 I like to buy seedlings. 00:10:21.304 --> 00:10:25.976 You know You're going to plant seeds, you're going to have to wait a long time. 00:10:25.976 --> 00:10:28.659 Sometimes they don't come, but you know what you have to do, don't you? 00:10:28.659 --> 00:10:30.547 You have to read the burp piece. 00:10:30.547 --> 00:10:38.238 You know if you buy burpee seeds that's a brand for those of you that don't know Burpee seeds you go down to the speed store, get you a seed packet. 00:10:38.238 --> 00:10:45.551 You know Well, why don't you read on there what to do with it, how deep to plant it, how far apart, all of that kind of stuff. 00:10:45.551 --> 00:10:48.546 But when you buy the seedlings it's already done for you see. 00:10:52.682 --> 00:10:56.636 But it reminds me of the store of the old man. 00:10:56.636 --> 00:11:01.620 You know, he was retired and he just loved gardening and so there was a vacant lot on his street in the subdivision. 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:10.659 So he went down there and cleared all the brush off of it and all the weeds off of it and he started improving it and planting it. 00:11:10.659 --> 00:11:15.558 I mean, he planted an English garden, had the hedges, had the rose bushes, had oh, it was gorgeous. 00:11:15.558 --> 00:11:19.804 He just did it because he just wanted to do it, he had time to do it. 00:11:19.804 --> 00:11:28.249 And you know, these people were standing there in front of it and says, oh, look at what God has done. 00:11:28.249 --> 00:11:31.659 Oh, it's so beautiful with his nature, gorgeous. 00:11:31.659 --> 00:11:36.345 And he was standing over there next to it and says, well, you should have seen him when he had it by himself. 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.946 We have something to do with what happens, don't we? 00:11:43.946 --> 00:11:49.015 You know, in Romans 12, 3,. 00:11:49.015 --> 00:11:52.390 Let's turn quickly back there, talking about faith, the believer servant. 00:11:52.390 --> 00:11:54.238 I know some of you are still going till. 00:11:54.238 --> 00:11:54.659 What does that mean? 00:11:54.659 --> 00:11:56.284 I'm fixing to tell you. 00:11:56.284 --> 00:11:57.649 That's what this whole thing is about. 00:11:57.649 --> 00:12:24.659 But Romans 12, verse 3, for I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 00:12:24.659 --> 00:12:28.330 Now he's not talking about just general public, he's talking about believers. 00:12:29.041 --> 00:12:30.302 If you're a believer, you've been. 00:12:30.302 --> 00:12:34.130 The only way you became a believer is that God dealt you the measure of the faith. 00:12:34.130 --> 00:12:37.910 It took for you to get saved, because we're all saved by faith and we didn't. 00:12:37.910 --> 00:12:39.659 The faith didn't come out of there just on its own. 00:12:39.659 --> 00:12:41.186 God gave it to you. 00:12:41.186 --> 00:12:43.105 How did he give it to you? 00:12:43.105 --> 00:12:47.428 When you heard the gospel, faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. 00:12:47.428 --> 00:12:58.472 That faith came into you and suddenly the blinders came off and you realized that you didn't have to live the way you've been living, thank God. 00:12:58.472 --> 00:13:03.328 It took me a while to catch on, raised in church, but yet I was not saved. 00:13:03.328 --> 00:13:14.154 I was vaccinated with religion, found out that it was not really truly a vaccination, just a waste of time. 00:13:14.154 --> 00:13:23.979 But at age 33, I mean God, just the blinders came off and I received the gospel. 00:13:23.979 --> 00:13:25.073 I was born again. 00:13:25.073 --> 00:13:29.736 That measure of faith came into me and we all have that measure of faith. 00:13:29.736 --> 00:13:38.639 So when our faith is producing, we don't have need of asking God for a medal of honor or a silver star or some kind of commendation. 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:44.419 I mean, you know, let's just realize that if we're believers, god expects us to live by faith. 00:13:44.529 --> 00:13:49.159 I've just been preaching on live by faith, the faith life, vision of faith on Wednesday night. 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.677 How many of you listen to Wednesday night on live stream? 00:13:51.677 --> 00:13:52.990 Do you some good Cause? 00:13:52.990 --> 00:13:55.919 I have little heavier meat on Wednesday night. 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:59.058 We need the whole thing. 00:13:59.058 --> 00:14:08.472 When I got ahold of these truths 40 years ago, I mean one of the biggest things that changed my life was being born again. 00:14:08.472 --> 00:14:12.176 The second thing was going to Lakewood church and sitting under John Osteen. 00:14:12.176 --> 00:14:16.413 That message changed my word of faith. 00:14:16.413 --> 00:14:17.677 Message changed my life. 00:14:17.677 --> 00:14:19.902 It's amazing. 00:14:21.774 --> 00:14:27.047 So all the gospels of Jesus is looking for faith. 00:14:27.047 --> 00:14:28.687 You know he goes up. 00:14:28.687 --> 00:14:34.659 He says oh, you have a little faith to Peter, how is it that you have no faith out in the boat? 00:14:34.659 --> 00:14:36.359 How is it that you have no faith? 00:14:36.359 --> 00:14:40.750 I just preached on me without it and we think Jesus was just so always. 00:14:40.750 --> 00:14:42.296 You had this loving kind. 00:14:42.296 --> 00:14:43.599 Look on his face. 00:14:43.599 --> 00:14:45.917 Oh, come on over here, brother, give me a hug. 00:14:45.917 --> 00:14:48.495 There's no record of him ever hugging those guys. 00:14:48.495 --> 00:15:00.059 I don't know if he slapped them or not, but he probably felt like we know what he did to the money changers he whipped them. 00:15:03.509 --> 00:15:11.394 Jesus is a little simple than our religious, our little Italian painting Amen that we have. 00:15:11.394 --> 00:15:15.315 So he's looking for faith. 00:15:15.315 --> 00:15:17.076 He says how is it that you have no faith? 00:15:17.076 --> 00:15:18.094 Oh, you have little faith. 00:15:18.094 --> 00:15:20.495 Oh, woman, great is that I faith. 00:15:20.495 --> 00:15:22.236 I have not found so great a faith. 00:15:22.236 --> 00:15:23.134 No, not in Israel. 00:15:23.134 --> 00:15:25.557 So he is measuring faith. 00:15:25.557 --> 00:15:28.955 He said it when I son of man, come it, that's not gonna be much longer. 00:15:28.955 --> 00:15:30.777 I don't have a date for you, but he's coming. 00:15:30.777 --> 00:15:37.335 He's looking for faith when he comes, not looking for excuses. 00:15:37.335 --> 00:15:40.557 The just shall live by their faith. 00:15:42.413 --> 00:15:47.101 So he said about faith, it's not the size of your faith, it's whether you plant it. 00:15:47.101 --> 00:15:52.500 If you have faith as a seed, get rid of the mustard seed. 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:59.120 It doesn't matter whether it's a mustard seed, an olive pit or what look, it's a seed. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:07.799 The point he's making is it implies that your faith is like a seed and has to be planted. 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.192 Are you with me now? 00:16:09.929 --> 00:16:13.841 Your faith is a seed planted by words. 00:16:13.841 --> 00:16:18.538 There's no planting your faith without you saying so. 00:16:18.538 --> 00:16:20.673 You're silent. 00:16:20.673 --> 00:16:22.198 There's no faith planted. 00:16:22.198 --> 00:16:26.418 You might have some, but it's just sitting there, it's not doing anything. 00:16:26.418 --> 00:16:31.456 In other words, faith without corresponding action is dead, being alone. 00:16:31.456 --> 00:16:37.294 I mean, what good is a bunch of seeds sitting on the shelf in the garage and you haven't planted them? 00:16:37.294 --> 00:16:40.235 You might as well not have them because they're not gonna do anything. 00:16:40.235 --> 00:16:43.736 But what happens when you plant them? 00:16:43.736 --> 00:16:47.673 Oh, they may begin to grow If you follow the directions. 00:16:47.673 --> 00:16:48.977 Are you with me now? 00:16:50.809 --> 00:17:00.719 Faith is a seed that's planted with words or dug up with words, since you know you could dig up the faith you planted. 00:17:00.719 --> 00:17:06.799 You might have planted some faith over here and then you dug it up with what you said. 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:08.030 You undid it. 00:17:08.030 --> 00:17:13.742 Another word Are y'all with me now? 00:17:13.742 --> 00:17:28.863 So when that he said it in Mark, chapter four, he says you know you plant that thing, you plant that seed and you go to sleep night and day, night and day, night and day, and the seed does what it springeth up. 00:17:28.863 --> 00:17:31.420 It springeth up. 00:17:31.420 --> 00:17:32.939 He knoweth not how. 00:17:32.939 --> 00:17:35.844 We don't know how it works, we just know it works. 00:17:35.844 --> 00:17:45.142 We don't have to be a plant scientist, we don't have to be a agricultural expert, we just need to follow what Jesus said. 00:17:45.142 --> 00:17:46.861 He said plant the faith. 00:17:46.861 --> 00:17:53.976 You go and then wait, because it's not instant, amen. 00:17:53.976 --> 00:17:56.842 It's gonna take a while, but it's soon. 00:17:56.842 --> 00:17:58.461 I mean as soon as you plant it. 00:17:58.555 --> 00:18:04.604 I like to think about when I plant my faith, when I start speaking towards something. 00:18:04.604 --> 00:18:16.561 You know, maybe I'm speaking to my body about health and I'm speaking to my body to do certain things and I think about you know that word's going in there and it's down in that ground. 00:18:16.561 --> 00:18:17.345 Where is that ground? 00:18:17.345 --> 00:18:19.382 It's in my heart, it's in my spirit. 00:18:19.382 --> 00:18:25.219 You know, when you plant a seed, you can't see it anymore. 00:18:25.219 --> 00:18:26.522 It's buried in the ground. 00:18:26.522 --> 00:18:34.583 You could go by 2000 acres of ground that's been freshly planted and it's just been planted the day before. 00:18:34.583 --> 00:18:37.483 You're not gonna see any evidence that it was planted. 00:18:37.483 --> 00:18:40.865 It's all just, you know, turned over and it's all out there. 00:18:40.865 --> 00:18:44.344 And yet they've got 2000 acres of seed that planted. 00:18:44.344 --> 00:18:45.267 And what happened? 00:18:45.267 --> 00:18:49.401 Well, at some point in time during germination, it's gonna send roots down. 00:18:49.401 --> 00:18:50.403 It wouldn't shoot supper. 00:18:50.403 --> 00:18:54.943 They say that in corn season. 00:18:54.943 --> 00:18:57.141 Up in Iowa you can hear the corn grow at night. 00:18:57.141 --> 00:18:59.076 Don't doubt it. 00:18:59.076 --> 00:19:03.182 Don't plan on going to Dubuque anytime soon, but amen. 00:19:03.182 --> 00:19:08.768 So it germinates, it grows, it produces fruit. 00:19:10.115 --> 00:19:10.857 Well then, how is it? 00:19:10.857 --> 00:19:11.862 The believer's servant? 00:19:11.862 --> 00:19:13.039 Well, let's just keep going here. 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:16.204 It says what do you do with your servant? 00:19:16.204 --> 00:19:18.482 See, he's just talking about this mustard seed. 00:19:18.482 --> 00:19:35.181 He's talking about the fact you need to plant it If you wanna forgive somebody of something terrible, or whether you wanna overcome some evil report like cancer, or you want to reverse something financial that's attacked you, whatever it is. 00:19:35.181 --> 00:19:39.701 I mean, jesus said in another place, in Mark 11, speak to the mountain. 00:19:39.701 --> 00:19:42.760 Didn't say pray about the mountain. 00:19:42.760 --> 00:19:44.821 Didn't say fast and pray about the mountain. 00:19:44.821 --> 00:19:47.467 He said speak to the mountain. 00:19:47.467 --> 00:19:50.983 In other words, plant the faith you've got. 00:19:50.983 --> 00:19:53.759 That's what we're talking about. 00:19:53.759 --> 00:20:02.101 So then he goes on to say and this is attached to the verses that I read All this is attached. 00:20:02.101 --> 00:20:03.420 It's all in the same. 00:20:03.420 --> 00:20:06.383 They're still sitting on the rock and he's still teaching them. 00:20:06.383 --> 00:20:10.541 Get a picture of how it happened. 00:20:10.541 --> 00:20:16.247 He's teaching them again about the seed principle. 00:20:18.035 --> 00:20:28.663 So many people forget when there's the heat of the battle and the heat and the terribleness of the action that we're confronting. 00:20:28.663 --> 00:20:32.023 Hey, forget, it's not instant. 00:20:32.023 --> 00:20:36.666 You've got to plant with an expectation of a harvest. 00:20:36.666 --> 00:20:39.022 It's gonna take a while for the harvest to grow. 00:20:39.022 --> 00:20:41.720 It's not instant. 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:48.807 He said your faith will serve you, work for you and feed you. 00:20:48.807 --> 00:20:50.461 See, that's exactly what he's saying. 00:20:50.461 --> 00:21:06.563 He said if you've got the ponderosa and that's your spread and you've got all kinds of hands, when they're out there doing their job, when they come in, are you gonna wait for them to eat before you eat? 00:21:06.563 --> 00:21:09.344 No, you're the owner, you're gonna get yours first. 00:21:10.634 --> 00:21:15.282 The Bible says in the book of Revelation we're all kings and priests unto God. 00:21:15.282 --> 00:21:18.324 The Bible says that Jesus is the king of kings. 00:21:18.324 --> 00:21:19.057 We're the kings. 00:21:19.057 --> 00:21:19.780 He's the king of. 00:21:19.780 --> 00:21:21.361 We're the lords, he's the lord of. 00:21:21.361 --> 00:21:30.006 It's time for the church to understand that we've got servants that we ought to not live by begging and crying and whining. 00:21:30.006 --> 00:21:31.961 And begging and crying and whining. 00:21:31.961 --> 00:21:33.018 We're like kings. 00:21:33.018 --> 00:21:38.104 We sit around and every our wish is our faith's command. 00:21:38.104 --> 00:21:44.142 Our faith has been given to us to serve us and to bring every need that we have. 00:21:44.142 --> 00:21:50.222 Our faith will feed us, our faith will protect us, our faith will provide for us. 00:21:50.222 --> 00:21:52.682 Our faith will bring us health on a platter. 00:21:52.682 --> 00:21:57.684 And isn't it exciting. 00:21:57.704 --> 00:22:01.284 You go out to eat and they bring that big old platter on there. 00:22:01.284 --> 00:22:04.501 You know it's got those if it's a fancy enough place. 00:22:04.501 --> 00:22:11.402 Now, you know they don't do that at McDonald's, but I mean, if you got a fancy enough place, they got something over the food. 00:22:11.402 --> 00:22:13.441 You know it's got a lid over the food. 00:22:13.441 --> 00:22:20.439 I think they bring it out there, man, you know, and then they bring to and they come to your left side, not to your right, they come to your left side. 00:22:20.439 --> 00:22:42.843 I don't really know why, but anyway they come out and they're just like I present it to you and they pull the cover off and you've got that steam coming off of your lamb chops or whatever it is that you it wouldn't be me ordering lamb chop, but anyway, your servant will serve you. 00:22:44.734 --> 00:22:45.921 Now do you have to feed them? 00:22:45.921 --> 00:22:51.721 Yeah, hey, serve me first, and then, after I've eaten and drunk, and then you go ahead and feed. 00:22:51.721 --> 00:22:54.864 Go ahead, see, I mean, the owner's not stupid. 00:22:54.864 --> 00:22:58.002 He knows the servant's got to eat and drink. 00:22:58.002 --> 00:23:01.077 You got to give them something, I guarantee you. 00:23:01.077 --> 00:23:02.583 So they had some chow at lunch. 00:23:02.583 --> 00:23:09.638 The servants did, the cowboys did All during the day they ate. 00:23:11.575 --> 00:23:14.961 But it's a matter of you're the king and you get served first. 00:23:14.961 --> 00:23:19.805 I mean you're the king, your demand is on the highest level. 00:23:19.805 --> 00:23:20.739 Are y'all with me now? 00:23:20.739 --> 00:23:23.259 I know y'all, most of you. 00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:24.743 I mean, you just really can't. 00:23:24.743 --> 00:23:28.340 You just don't want to think that way because you're humble. 00:23:28.340 --> 00:23:32.000 See, look, we've got to quit being so humble as false humility. 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:39.002 God put us on the earth to be an example of his goodness, his greatness. 00:23:39.002 --> 00:23:41.642 The Jews got a hold of this. 00:23:41.642 --> 00:23:48.243 They failed at it, but they got a hold of it, and somehow the church is just hung up on. 00:23:48.243 --> 00:23:50.702 Oh well, I can't be like that. 00:23:50.702 --> 00:23:51.438 Yes, you can. 00:23:51.438 --> 00:23:55.044 I don't mean on a personal basis to another person. 00:23:55.044 --> 00:23:56.240 I'm talking about your faith. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.403 Now, your faith is ready to go. 00:23:59.403 --> 00:24:01.221 You've been given that faith. 00:24:01.221 --> 00:24:03.682 You've been given a whole bunch of servants. 00:24:03.701 --> 00:24:04.644 Can you imagine a king? 00:24:04.644 --> 00:24:07.161 He's got somebody that? 00:24:07.161 --> 00:24:11.500 He's got the butler, the baker, the candlestick maker. 00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:13.423 I mean he's got everybody on staff. 00:24:13.423 --> 00:24:15.583 He's got somebody to take care of his clothes. 00:24:15.583 --> 00:24:20.301 I mean he doesn't go to the closet, pick out his clothes, they go and they lay it out for him. 00:24:20.301 --> 00:24:23.840 I wonder what the king's underwear is gonna be today. 00:24:23.840 --> 00:24:25.384 Let's go to the drawer, let's find it. 00:24:25.384 --> 00:24:30.497 They've got somebody in charge of his underwear I guarantee it His shoes, his socks. 00:24:30.497 --> 00:24:35.711 When he goes on a trip, they pack his bags. 00:24:35.711 --> 00:24:37.827 They take him out to the limo. 00:24:37.827 --> 00:24:39.567 The limo goes to the airport. 00:24:39.567 --> 00:24:48.390 He gets on his own jet and flies somewhere On the jet is somebody taking care of him, making sure that he's got food and drink. 00:24:48.390 --> 00:24:49.763 Are y'all with me now? 00:24:49.763 --> 00:24:53.709 This sounds like the lifestyles of the rich and famous. 00:24:54.000 --> 00:25:00.469 I want you to do is I want you to transfer these thoughts into the fact that you're a king and you have servants. 00:25:00.469 --> 00:25:11.905 Your faith has been given you and you don't have a need to beg and ask God and blubber and cry and act like that. 00:25:11.905 --> 00:25:16.969 There's some kind of magic thing that maybe God's gonna finally notice where you live. 00:25:16.969 --> 00:25:18.844 You're a king. 00:25:18.844 --> 00:25:21.924 Angels know where you live. 00:25:21.924 --> 00:25:25.705 Woo, hallelujah. 00:25:27.865 --> 00:25:29.269 You don't get anything out of this now. 00:25:29.269 --> 00:25:32.944 So your faith will serve you. 00:25:32.944 --> 00:25:33.667 It'll work for you. 00:25:33.667 --> 00:25:35.365 It'll feed you, but you have to feed your faith. 00:25:35.365 --> 00:25:37.001 You have to feed it. 00:25:37.001 --> 00:25:38.768 What do you feed it? 00:25:38.768 --> 00:25:39.964 Well, you feed it the word of God. 00:25:39.964 --> 00:25:40.923 You have to hydrate it. 00:25:40.923 --> 00:25:41.786 You gotta praise God. 00:25:41.786 --> 00:25:45.446 You gotta praise God before you see anything. 00:25:45.446 --> 00:25:46.744 That's hydration. 00:25:46.744 --> 00:25:49.384 You gotta keep your confession. 00:25:49.384 --> 00:25:57.090 That's more food, more nourishment, and your faith works. 00:25:57.131 --> 00:25:58.673 24 seven, didn't he say that? 00:25:58.673 --> 00:26:03.526 He said you sleep and rise night and day, and the earth bringeth forth fruit of your cell. 00:26:03.526 --> 00:26:05.563 It springs up. 00:26:05.563 --> 00:26:06.406 We know it's not how. 00:26:06.406 --> 00:26:08.744 First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn and the ear. 00:26:08.744 --> 00:26:14.270 And if you keep planting your faith, you've got different crops growing at different times. 00:26:14.270 --> 00:26:15.665 You ought to have a continuous. 00:26:15.665 --> 00:26:17.324 You ought to. 00:26:17.324 --> 00:26:28.663 There ought to be harvest time on a continuous basis, because you're constantly sowing your faith, planting your faith with words in a believing heart. 00:26:28.663 --> 00:26:33.167 You know, don't get all puffed up when it happens. 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:41.506 Don't be looking for a commendation, don't be looking for a bunch of hoopla just because your faith worked. 00:26:41.506 --> 00:26:43.144 It's designed to work. 00:26:43.144 --> 00:26:47.826 In fact, he's expecting you to live like your faith is working. 00:26:47.826 --> 00:26:53.270 He's wanting to know where's your faith. 00:26:53.270 --> 00:26:56.426 How is it that you have no faith? 00:26:56.426 --> 00:27:00.465 Oh, you have little faith. 00:27:00.465 --> 00:27:04.047 He did that to his own disciples. 00:27:04.047 --> 00:27:07.885 What do you think he's telling you See, we ought to ask ourselves that. 00:27:07.885 --> 00:27:10.525 Don't wait for him to do it. 00:27:10.525 --> 00:27:12.787 Let's ask ourselves, let's measure ourselves. 00:27:12.787 --> 00:27:20.463 When we allow ourselves to have a pity party, we come apart over things that just aren't working out quite like what we thought. 00:27:20.463 --> 00:27:20.865 Amen. 00:27:20.865 --> 00:27:25.027 So the results, these results. 00:27:25.027 --> 00:27:27.605 God expects these results. 00:27:27.605 --> 00:27:35.269 See, don't think of yourself more highly than you ought to think when things do start to work. 00:27:35.269 --> 00:27:40.826 Don't start looking for a title, don't start looking for a big. 00:27:41.339 --> 00:27:43.689 Is he a rewarder of those who diligently seek him? 00:27:43.689 --> 00:27:44.663 You know he is. 00:27:44.663 --> 00:27:45.705 He is a rewarder. 00:27:45.705 --> 00:27:47.009 But leave it with him. 00:27:47.009 --> 00:27:48.744 I mean really just your faith. 00:27:48.744 --> 00:27:49.909 Producing is all the. 00:27:49.909 --> 00:28:00.082 That's fulfillment right there, when you get your healing, when your money comes in that you needed to pay your taxes, don't you know? 00:28:00.142 --> 00:28:07.204 Peter was relieved when he caught the first fish and the gold coin comes spitting out of the fish's mouth, isn't it, man? 00:28:07.204 --> 00:28:11.462 I didn't know about Jesus, but golly, I didn't even say that. 00:28:11.462 --> 00:28:19.403 But you know he's thinking what Go get the first fish and get the gold coin out of his mouth and pay your taxes. 00:28:19.403 --> 00:28:21.286 And mine he's oh, come on Jesus. 00:28:21.286 --> 00:28:24.165 Have you ever said oh, come on Jesus. 00:28:24.165 --> 00:28:27.844 You know you have. 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:35.266 Now he expects us to live by faith and to put our faith to work for us. 00:28:35.266 --> 00:28:38.703 Amen, praise God, and we're his servants. 00:28:38.703 --> 00:28:41.085 After all, we're his servants. 00:28:41.085 --> 00:28:45.565 I know we're his sons, I know we're his sons and daughters, but we have a servant's heart. 00:28:45.565 --> 00:28:48.229 We wanna bring forth fruit for the kingdom. 00:28:48.229 --> 00:28:49.746 We're kingdom participators. 00:28:49.746 --> 00:28:51.205 This is kingdom business. 00:28:51.205 --> 00:29:00.807 This is the way the kingdom operates and it's false humility to start living like a servant that doesn't have a servant. 00:29:00.807 --> 00:29:03.965 We're servants that have servants. 00:29:03.965 --> 00:29:08.888 Just think about those mighty men. 00:29:08.888 --> 00:29:29.169 When they first started off with David in the cave of Abdullah, they were in debt, discouraged and just at the bottom of the heap, and just a few years later they were so rich they gave billions to build the temple. 00:29:29.169 --> 00:29:36.067 I mean, when David gave his billions, he turned around and said okay, boys, it's your turn now. 00:29:36.067 --> 00:29:40.079 And they pointed up Somewhere down the line. 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:40.863 They hooked up. 00:29:40.863 --> 00:29:49.066 I said they hooked up with what kingdom they were in and we've got a better covenant found upon better promises. 00:29:51.155 --> 00:29:56.730 So you know, years ago I was in Galveston praying. 00:29:56.730 --> 00:29:59.775 The Lord has got this thing with me. 00:29:59.775 --> 00:30:03.315 He just it's kind of a running joke in a way, but yet it's not always a joke. 00:30:03.315 --> 00:30:05.134 Sometimes it's really instructive. 00:30:05.134 --> 00:30:08.788 But he'll show me many times, not every single time, but many times. 00:30:08.788 --> 00:30:19.015 He'll show me something that I've never seen before, just something that will occur, and then he'll use it to illustrate something. 00:30:19.015 --> 00:30:27.578