WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.772 But it is now my honor to introduce Pastor Perfetto and his wife, lisa Esquibel. 00:00:05.772 --> 00:00:08.484 I mean, we've known them for about five years. 00:00:08.484 --> 00:00:21.411 You know, god hooked us up with Mark and Trina Hankins and the first time we went to see Brother Mark was in Pastor Perfetto's church and we got to meet Pastor Perfetto and his whole family and they're just full of the Holy Ghost. 00:00:21.411 --> 00:00:22.503 They have a wonderful church. 00:00:22.503 --> 00:00:28.768 Everybody's so sweet and kind there and I'm telling you, god's just, over the years, just hooked us up, man. 00:00:28.768 --> 00:00:29.652 We've gone out to eat. 00:00:29.652 --> 00:00:38.500 You remember a couple of summers ago we hit this jack-in-the-box at the same time and we grabbed Jack-in-the-Box tacos and we ended up having a party in the parking lot. 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:40.625 That's the kind of thing you know. 00:00:40.625 --> 00:00:43.110 We run into them everywhere we go. 00:00:43.110 --> 00:00:45.908 They're amazing people. 00:00:45.908 --> 00:00:46.469 They really are. 00:00:46.469 --> 00:00:52.232 So I know he's anointed and full of the Holy Ghost and has a word directly for now. 00:00:52.232 --> 00:00:54.424 Now, faith is now. 00:00:54.424 --> 00:01:00.582 Now is faith, and I'm telling you, man, he's here to deliver something that's important for now Amen. 00:01:00.582 --> 00:01:02.067 So welcome, pastor Perfetto. 00:01:06.409 --> 00:01:07.030 Thank you, brother. 00:01:07.030 --> 00:01:08.373 Appreciate it, sir. 00:01:08.373 --> 00:01:11.888 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:01:11.888 --> 00:01:13.292 God bless you everyone. 00:01:13.292 --> 00:01:17.911 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:01:17.911 --> 00:01:21.085 I'll tell you what. 00:01:21.085 --> 00:01:21.968 Thank you so much. 00:01:21.968 --> 00:01:22.850 I appreciate that. 00:01:22.850 --> 00:01:29.313 Why don't we give Pastor John and Gladys a great big round of applause for all that they do? 00:01:29.313 --> 00:01:33.388 Amen, glory to God. 00:01:33.388 --> 00:01:34.790 We honor you. 00:01:34.790 --> 00:01:35.793 We thank you. 00:01:35.793 --> 00:01:39.486 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:01:39.486 --> 00:01:44.986 We're so thankful for you, pastor John and Pastor Gladys, for Jay and Selena and the children. 00:01:44.986 --> 00:01:50.983 I just want to first of all just give honor to whom honor is due and, sir, we thank you. 00:01:50.983 --> 00:01:54.152 Ms Gladys, we thank you so much for inviting us. 00:01:54.519 --> 00:02:04.933 It's an honor and a privilege to be here to minister today, and thank you for entrusting us with ministering the Word to your congregation today. 00:02:04.933 --> 00:02:07.403 Amen, and I know your people are precious to you. 00:02:07.403 --> 00:02:10.390 The anointing was so strong and thick up here. 00:02:10.390 --> 00:02:12.843 Amen, and I sense the anointing right now. 00:02:12.843 --> 00:02:15.390 Hallelujah, amen, praise God. 00:02:15.390 --> 00:02:23.272 What a privilege it is to go to a church that is filled with the Word of God and with the Spirit of God. 00:02:23.272 --> 00:02:27.729 Amen, and Dad Hagan taught us we need both the Word and the Spirit. 00:02:27.729 --> 00:02:29.201 Amen, and you know. 00:02:29.201 --> 00:02:35.122 So you can go to some churches and get a lot of Word, but there's no move of the Holy Ghost, no fresh move of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:35.122 --> 00:02:39.230 You can go to other churches that have a lot of Spirit, but no Word. 00:02:39.230 --> 00:02:51.774 Amen, and what a blessing it is to be here, in this church, here, impacting your whole community, and we are so thankful and blessed to be here today. 00:02:51.774 --> 00:02:53.479 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:02:54.242 --> 00:03:00.563 My wife and I have been married for almost 28 years now and just a few months will be 28 years We've been in ministry together. 00:03:00.563 --> 00:03:01.947 Amen, god, thank you. 00:03:01.947 --> 00:03:06.043 Thank you, lisa. 00:03:06.043 --> 00:03:06.564 Come on up. 00:03:06.564 --> 00:03:07.469 Why don't you just come on up? 00:03:07.469 --> 00:03:10.001 Our youngest child is with us, gabriel. 00:03:10.001 --> 00:03:12.626 Would you stand up, gabriel, and say hello to everyone? 00:03:12.626 --> 00:03:15.372 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:03:15.372 --> 00:03:17.723 Thank you, amen. 00:03:17.723 --> 00:03:18.944 Gabriel is 14. 00:03:18.944 --> 00:03:23.883 He's in the eighth grade and he just passed me in height this year, my goodness. 00:03:23.883 --> 00:03:25.609 So he's going to be tall. 00:03:25.609 --> 00:03:28.304 Amen, we're very blessed. 00:03:28.344 --> 00:03:31.132 We have three children Alyssa, brianna and Gabriel. 00:03:31.132 --> 00:03:39.628 And Alyssa is our children's pastor, brianna is our youth pastor, and Gabriel, he plays the drums in church. 00:03:39.628 --> 00:03:42.665 Amen, man, I love that, jay, your son playing drums. 00:03:42.665 --> 00:03:43.849 He's so good, he's excellent. 00:03:43.849 --> 00:03:49.490 And Gabriel plays football, baseball and wrestling, so he keeps us busy. 00:03:49.490 --> 00:03:51.473 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:57.465 But we're just so blessed and honored to be with you all, lisa and I we've been in ministry. 00:03:57.465 --> 00:04:00.132 We got married and we went to our honeymoon. 00:04:00.132 --> 00:04:17.252 We came home from our honeymoon and the next day we packed up a little open trailer and moved from LA, from Los Angeles, to Colorado where we were youth pastors for two years and then we pastored and then we were assistant pastors for Mark and Trina Hankins for 10 years. 00:04:17.252 --> 00:04:32.112 Amen, and really that was the greatest honor of our life to minister to them and to help them and to just be a support to them and really Pastor Mark and Trina are our spiritual father and mother. 00:04:32.112 --> 00:04:33.074 Amen. 00:04:33.074 --> 00:04:37.452 So we're with Pastor Hankins at least 10 times every year. 00:04:37.452 --> 00:04:39.500 We're with him, starting in January. 00:04:39.500 --> 00:04:45.392 We're with him for a week in March, another week Then he'll come and preach for our church. 00:04:45.392 --> 00:04:48.329 Then we'll go with several other meetings with him throughout the year. 00:04:48.329 --> 00:05:01.870 About 10 times a year we're with Pastor Hankins and really I owe my life and my whole ministry besides the Holy Spirit to Pastor Hankins and I'm so thankful for them. 00:05:01.870 --> 00:05:04.173 Amen, praise the Lord, amen. 00:05:05.161 --> 00:05:07.206 Well, I don't know, lisa, do you have a microphone? 00:05:07.206 --> 00:05:09.571 Thank you, sir, appreciate it. 00:05:09.571 --> 00:05:10.293 Amen. 00:05:10.293 --> 00:05:13.105 Today my wife can greet you and say hello. 00:05:13.105 --> 00:05:14.911 There it is, it's on. 00:05:14.911 --> 00:05:17.442 And before I minister. 00:05:17.442 --> 00:05:20.088 I usually I like to have my wife sing. 00:05:20.088 --> 00:05:23.913 It ministers to my heart and it helps me to minister Amen. 00:05:23.913 --> 00:05:35.184 And she was really disappointed because she wanted to sing a new cool song, like you all are doing here, like you all are doing here in church. 00:05:35.184 --> 00:05:43.567 But you know, there's an old song that ministers to my heart and it literally, I mean it makes me want to weep every time I hear it. 00:05:43.567 --> 00:05:50.086 And she's been singing it ever since we were kids Because we dated in high school and then I said look baby. 00:05:50.086 --> 00:05:53.773 I said when I go to Bible school, when I come back, we're getting married. 00:05:53.773 --> 00:05:56.764 And she said okay, go ahead. 00:05:56.764 --> 00:05:57.766 And so that's what we did. 00:05:57.766 --> 00:06:00.312 I came back home from Reima and we got married. 00:06:00.312 --> 00:06:06.853 But she's been singing this song ever since we were kids or teenagers and it ministers to me. 00:06:06.853 --> 00:06:11.480 I trusted a minister to you, amen, praise the Lord. 00:06:12.242 --> 00:06:12.723 Amen. 00:06:12.723 --> 00:06:15.370 Weren't you thankful for the Holy Spirit? 00:06:15.370 --> 00:06:17.180 Amen, holy Spirit. 00:06:17.180 --> 00:06:22.973 He's our helper, he's our guide, he's our advocate and he's always there. 00:06:22.973 --> 00:06:24.617 Hallelujah, amen. 00:06:46.432 --> 00:06:52.877 Touch through me, holy Spirit. 00:06:52.877 --> 00:06:59.072 Touch through me. 00:06:59.072 --> 00:07:07.040 Let my hands reach out to others. 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:11.447 Touch through me. 00:07:11.447 --> 00:07:28.713 There's a lonely soul somewhere Needing just one friend to care. 00:07:28.713 --> 00:07:36.149 Touch through me, holy Spirit. 00:07:36.149 --> 00:07:46.769 Touch through me and love through me. 00:07:46.769 --> 00:07:54.165 Holy Spirit, love through me. 00:07:54.165 --> 00:08:05.173 I will be my brother's keeper. 00:08:05.173 --> 00:08:09.026 Love through me. 00:08:09.026 --> 00:08:20.451 Hearts are bleeding deep inside. 00:08:20.451 --> 00:08:24.065 Love can dry. 00:08:24.065 --> 00:08:28.922 There will be lies, soul. 00:08:28.922 --> 00:08:34.308 Love through me, holy Spirit. 00:08:34.308 --> 00:08:48.139 Love through me and flow through me, holy Spirit. 00:08:48.139 --> 00:09:02.019 Flow through me Just like a river in the desert. 00:09:02.019 --> 00:09:08.702 Flow through me, oh. 00:09:08.702 --> 00:09:23.893 Flow through me, streaming out, touch, healing streams, those living waters so full and clean. 00:09:23.893 --> 00:09:30.448 So flow through me, holy Spirit. 00:09:30.448 --> 00:09:36.861 Flow through me, oh. 00:09:36.861 --> 00:09:54.485 Flow in this place this morning, my hands will be your hands, reaching out to others and the Lord. 00:09:54.485 --> 00:10:17.225 My lips will not be slothful, lord, to speak, and I will be the cause of everything To someone else. 00:10:17.225 --> 00:10:29.366 In me, I will be your house to dwell in. 00:10:29.366 --> 00:10:43.529 Live through me and flow through me, holy Spirit. 00:10:43.529 --> 00:10:56.327 Love through me, holy Spirit and touch through me. 00:10:56.327 --> 00:11:19.485 Holy Spirit, touch through me, touch through me, amen. 00:11:21.923 --> 00:11:30.370 Amen, amen, praise the Lord, thank you, amen, isn't that the cry of all of our hearts today? 00:11:30.370 --> 00:11:31.052 Thank you, sir. 00:11:31.052 --> 00:11:36.958 Don't you want the Holy Spirit to touch through you, flow through you, speak through you? 00:11:36.958 --> 00:11:39.471 Amen, minister, to someone else, through you. 00:11:39.471 --> 00:11:41.179 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:11:41.179 --> 00:11:44.195 I know that's the desire of our hearts this morning. 00:11:44.195 --> 00:11:45.078 Amen, praise God. 00:11:45.078 --> 00:11:53.354 And so, just for a few minutes, I want to speak to you today about how we can be great in the kingdom of God. 00:11:53.354 --> 00:11:57.727 Doesn't anyone want to be great in the kingdom of God? 00:11:57.727 --> 00:11:59.873 Amen, praise the Lord. 00:12:00.421 --> 00:12:03.028 So, before we do that, why don't we open with the word of prayer here? 00:12:03.028 --> 00:12:09.133 Heavenly Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus and Father, we are just crying out to you. 00:12:09.133 --> 00:12:20.159 We thank you first of all for the precious Holy Spirit, we thank you for His presence in this place and we thank you for the Word of God so powerful in this place. 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:42.179 And, father, we're asking you, lord, that you would give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened, that we may know what is the hope of your calling and what the riches of the glory of your inheritance in the saints is, and what is the exceeding greatness of your power to us who believe? 00:12:42.179 --> 00:13:07.179 Father, teach us and show us what you've called us to do and what you have provided for us, how we can do your work, and we thank you for it, father, in Jesus' name, amen, amen, praise the Lord, if you would open your Bibles with me to the book of Matthew, chapter 20, matthew, chapter 20, starting with verse 23,. 00:13:09.225 --> 00:13:15.866 It's very interesting here because I believe it's James and John, the sons of Zebedee, their mama, she reminds me of my mama. 00:13:15.866 --> 00:13:17.770 Their mama came to Jesus. 00:13:17.770 --> 00:13:31.431 Oh, my goodness, if y'all knew my mama, my mama still at my church shouting and jumping and praising God, 83 years old, and she's still constantly telling me how I should be serving the Lord. 00:13:31.431 --> 00:13:41.491 James and John, their mama, came to Jesus and said Jesus, when you enter into your kingdom, let my son sit at your right and your left hand. 00:13:41.491 --> 00:13:44.666 And you know, jesus didn't scold her. 00:13:44.666 --> 00:13:47.873 Jesus didn't tell her that's not right for you to ask that. 00:13:47.873 --> 00:13:51.049 The other disciples, they didn't like it. 00:13:51.049 --> 00:13:52.313 They didn't like it. 00:13:52.313 --> 00:13:53.778 They got mad. 00:13:53.778 --> 00:13:57.530 But Jesus never scolded her for it. 00:13:57.530 --> 00:14:00.159 All he told her was this in verse 23. 00:14:00.621 --> 00:14:10.873 He said to the disciples, to James and John, he said you shall drink, indeed, of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with. 00:14:10.873 --> 00:14:14.028 He was talking about his crucifixion and his resurrection. 00:14:14.028 --> 00:14:20.350 He said but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give. 00:14:20.350 --> 00:14:22.462 But now, notice here. 00:14:22.462 --> 00:14:24.466 He didn't scold them for wanting this. 00:14:24.466 --> 00:14:29.000 He actually is going to tell them how to get it, he said. 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:37.073 But it shall be given to them, for whom it is prepared, of my father. 00:14:37.073 --> 00:14:43.114 So he said there actually are some places in the kingdom of God. 00:14:43.114 --> 00:14:48.993 At his right hand and at his left hand there are some great and mighty places for us to sit. 00:14:48.993 --> 00:14:51.120 Isn't that amazing? 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:54.609 And Jesus said I'm not the one who gives out those positions. 00:14:54.609 --> 00:14:56.091 He said the father does. 00:14:56.091 --> 00:14:58.989 But then notice what he tells them here. 00:14:59.711 --> 00:15:02.159 And when the 10 heard it, they were moved with indignation. 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:03.524 They were mad at the two brothers. 00:15:03.524 --> 00:15:15.159 But Jesus called them unto him and said you know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.769 He said you know how people in this world get great right? 00:15:18.769 --> 00:15:24.159 They kind of walk on each other, they kind of climb over each other, they stomp on each other. 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.128 I mean you know it's all about. 00:15:27.128 --> 00:15:31.179 You know, take care of number one, take care of yourself. 00:15:31.179 --> 00:15:36.139 And you know it doesn't matter who you have to cheat still or roll over to. 00:15:36.139 --> 00:15:39.125 That's the way they do it in the world. 00:15:39.125 --> 00:15:42.953 That's the way they do it in business, that's the way they do it in sports. 00:15:42.953 --> 00:15:47.139 I mean it's dog eat dog and it's take care of number one. 00:15:48.101 --> 00:15:53.974 But then Jesus tells them but it shall not be so among you. 00:15:53.974 --> 00:16:00.159 But notice, jesus said that's not the way you're going to do it in my kingdom. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.469 He said it shall not be so among you. 00:16:03.469 --> 00:16:11.179 He said but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister. 00:16:11.179 --> 00:16:15.159 So Jesus tells them look, he said that's not the way we do it in my kingdom. 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.807 He said but there is a way to become great in my kingdom. 00:16:18.807 --> 00:16:21.913 It's by becoming the servant of all. 00:16:22.583 --> 00:16:29.159 When he said, let him become your minister, he wasn't just talking about being a minister like a preacher, like Pastor John. 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:51.695 This word minister is the picture of really a young servant boy or a slave who is standing by his master with a towel over his arm, with a jug of water in his hand, with the bowl there, so that when his master wakes up in the morning, like Elijah and Elisha. 00:16:51.695 --> 00:17:01.715 Most theologians believe Elisha served the prophet Elijah for at least 18 years before he started his own ministry. 00:17:01.715 --> 00:17:17.972 And what happens is you see a picture of a young servant with a towel over his arm and a jug of water in his hand, and when the prophet of God would pour out his hands just to wash his face in the morning, the young man was there to pour the water. 00:17:17.972 --> 00:17:21.828 It's the picture of a waiter. 00:17:22.721 --> 00:17:34.180 You know someone when you go to a restaurant, and when you go to a good restaurant and you have a good waiter or someone to help you, they're there ready to fill your glass before you even ask for it to be filled. 00:17:34.180 --> 00:17:39.952 They're there watching for the things that you are already needing on your table and they come and bring it for you. 00:17:39.952 --> 00:17:46.180 Or they know you very well because you go there often and they already know what your favorite appetizer is. 00:17:46.180 --> 00:17:47.924 They know what your drink is. 00:17:47.924 --> 00:17:49.569 You know you like that peach tea. 00:17:49.569 --> 00:17:52.045 They know all of those things. 00:17:52.045 --> 00:17:54.761 They know how you want your steak cooked Right. 00:17:54.761 --> 00:18:06.412 They know the salad dressing you prefer, and it's because they have become excellent at serving and Jesus said that this is actually the way to become great in his kingdom. 00:18:06.412 --> 00:18:09.786 Wow, that's amazing, isn't it? 00:18:09.786 --> 00:18:11.391 It's kind of opposite from the world. 00:18:11.391 --> 00:18:14.988 So he said and whosoever will be chief among you? 00:18:14.988 --> 00:18:21.449 You know, sometimes that's the problem, pastor, we have too many chiefs and not enough Indians. 00:18:21.449 --> 00:18:30.191 In other words, everybody wants to be a big shot, but we need some little shots around here. 00:18:30.191 --> 00:18:35.832 In other words, we need some people who are just willing and ready to roll up their sleeves. 00:18:35.832 --> 00:18:46.790 It doesn't matter the title that they have, it doesn't matter if they get the notoriety or the fame, and they're just ready to serve and do whatever needs to be done for the kingdom of God. 00:18:48.041 --> 00:18:54.094 You know, I was so impressed with a man who was a doctor in my church when I served Pastor Hankins in Pastor Hankins church. 00:18:54.094 --> 00:18:57.267 So I was Pastor Hankins associate. 00:18:57.267 --> 00:19:07.054 My wife and I were over the life groups and we started, just within our life group, over 15 other life groups or cell groups in the church. 00:19:07.054 --> 00:19:13.532 We were we taught everyone to be very dedicated and loyal to the church's vision and to support the church's vision. 00:19:13.532 --> 00:19:21.472 And in our, in our original life group and one of our life group leaders that we sent out and he and his wife began other multiple life groups. 00:19:21.472 --> 00:19:27.972 He was an intensive care doctor there in Alexandria in Louisiana. 00:19:29.256 --> 00:19:30.179 But you know this man. 00:19:30.179 --> 00:19:32.884 He would work many hours in the hospital. 00:19:32.884 --> 00:19:37.183 He bought a house right next to the hospital so he could be there all the time. 00:19:37.183 --> 00:19:41.805 But you know, I noticed that he would always go soul winning with us on Saturdays. 00:19:41.805 --> 00:19:46.685 I noticed that he would always go preaching in the prisons on different nights of the week. 00:19:46.685 --> 00:19:57.397 I remember one time in our leadership meeting we'd have meetings together and talk about visitors and talk about how we can reach more people and how we could support the vision of the pastor. 00:19:57.397 --> 00:20:07.006 I remember one day we were sitting there and he kind of laughed and he said you know, he said my wife and I, we just looked at our giving record for last year. 00:20:07.006 --> 00:20:14.400 He said and I just realized I could have paid off my house last year with what we gave to the kingdom of God. 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.762 Well, you know, I'll tell you what. 00:20:16.762 --> 00:20:25.626 My pastor, mark Hankins, says it this way I've never met a lifetime tither who has ever regretted being a tither and being a giver. 00:20:25.626 --> 00:20:27.720 Amen, because I'll tell you what happened. 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:36.946 Within the next year, maybe two years, this intensive care doctor actually became a part owner of that intensive care practice. 00:20:36.946 --> 00:20:46.201 So that whole intensive care floor is owned by the hospital, but the practice is owned by the physicians, and he's one of them, baby. 00:20:46.201 --> 00:20:56.605 So he went from, you know, making a certain amount of money to making millions, because he's not only working in the practice but he owns the practice. 00:20:57.174 --> 00:21:00.763 How many know that God wants to promote you in the kingdom of God? 00:21:00.763 --> 00:21:03.403 You see, this guy wasn't worried about. 00:21:03.403 --> 00:21:07.803 Well, I'm a professional, well, I'm a this, well, I'm a, that I have this degree and that degree. 00:21:07.803 --> 00:21:14.596 Know, what we need to have in the kingdom of God is people who are willing to be servants of all. 00:21:14.596 --> 00:21:21.460 Oh, hallelujah, god will promote you for doing this. 00:21:21.460 --> 00:21:26.325 Whoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. 00:21:26.325 --> 00:21:41.887 And in verse 28, then Jesus reminds us he said, even as the Son of man came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life as a ransom for many. 00:21:41.887 --> 00:21:49.459 Wow, jesus even straightened out his disciples, because here they are trying to figure out how to become great. 00:21:49.459 --> 00:21:56.000 And Jesus said no, no, no, no, no, don't worry about figuring out how to be great, god will take care of that for you. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:01.384 You just be like me and figure out how many people can you serve. 00:22:01.384 --> 00:22:05.824 Pastor Hankins taught me that in those years that I worked for him. 00:22:05.824 --> 00:22:07.480 I remember one day I wrote it down. 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:08.202 I'll never forget it. 00:22:08.202 --> 00:22:10.560 He said you're great, and you can write it down too. 00:22:10.560 --> 00:22:19.839 Since it came from him, he said this your greatness in the kingdom of God is directly determined by how many people you can serve. 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:30.338 Wow, he said your greatness in the kingdom of God is directly determined by how many people you can serve. 00:22:31.095 --> 00:22:34.003 You know who the most selfish man is in the world? 00:22:34.003 --> 00:22:36.019 Right, it's the man living under the bridge. 00:22:36.019 --> 00:22:43.607 You know, I feed these guys every week at my church and you know, some of them are there chronically. 00:22:43.607 --> 00:22:45.221 They're chronic homeless. 00:22:45.221 --> 00:22:47.180 They want to stay out there. 00:22:47.180 --> 00:23:00.701 Some of them I mean, we're not talking about 20-year-olds, we're talking about 40, 50, even 60-year-olds who choose to live their life only to take care of themselves and no one else. 00:23:00.701 --> 00:23:04.262 It's a different way of seeing things, isn't it? 00:23:04.262 --> 00:23:09.741 But we feed the homeless, we clothe the homeless, we find jobs and housing for the homeless. 00:23:10.375 --> 00:23:15.479 But I'm telling you, for someone to stay in that situation means I don't want to listen to anyone else. 00:23:15.479 --> 00:23:17.682 I don't want to be responsible for anyone else. 00:23:17.682 --> 00:23:20.403 I don't want anyone else telling me any rules or what to do. 00:23:20.403 --> 00:23:22.118 I'm going to live this way. 00:23:22.118 --> 00:23:25.981 So some people can only take care of themselves. 00:23:25.981 --> 00:23:27.699 Others can do a little better. 00:23:27.699 --> 00:23:32.722 They can take care of their wife or maybe their children or maybe a dog. 00:23:32.722 --> 00:23:45.097 And you know, dad Hagen used to say the old farmer would have that prayer and say God bless me, my wife Mary, my son John, his wife Plus four, no more. 00:23:45.097 --> 00:23:48.819 So some people do a little better. 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:52.436 They can take care of their family and that's honorable, that's a blessing. 00:23:53.414 --> 00:23:56.984 But then some people begin to step out and serve even more. 00:23:56.984 --> 00:24:00.183 Maybe they begin to greet at the church on Sunday morning. 00:24:00.183 --> 00:24:01.739 They have to get there a little early. 00:24:01.739 --> 00:24:04.300 They have to sacrifice more of their time. 00:24:04.300 --> 00:24:08.244 They have to forget about themselves and think about other people. 00:24:08.244 --> 00:24:14.519 Maybe they can work as ushers, maybe they work in the sound booth, never even get to sit with their family in church like we get to do. 00:24:14.795 --> 00:24:16.701 I did that for 10 years for Pastor Hankins. 00:24:16.701 --> 00:24:20.724 Then when anything goes wrong in the service, everybody looks at the sound booth. 00:24:20.724 --> 00:24:24.846 It doesn't matter what it is, it's the hot seat. 00:24:24.846 --> 00:24:26.419 It's the hot seat, baby. 00:24:26.419 --> 00:24:37.301 I remember one service I was serving in the sound booth as I did, every service and all the lights and the whole place and all the power went down. 00:24:37.301 --> 00:24:45.080 And then the emergency lights come on with the batteries and what do you think all those hundreds of people did? 00:24:45.080 --> 00:24:50.440 Turned around and looked at me in the sound booth and I'm standing there like I didn't do it. 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:55.542 A car hit a transformer outside and took the whole block out. 00:24:55.542 --> 00:24:57.567 So it didn't matter. 00:24:57.567 --> 00:24:59.540 Pastor Hankins just preached in the dark. 00:24:59.540 --> 00:25:07.601 He did that multiple times when it would storm you know Louisiana has bad storms, so does Houston and it would knock the lights out. 00:25:07.601 --> 00:25:08.759 He'd just keep on preaching. 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:14.067 We'd be sitting in there sweating with the humidity and he'd be preaching Praise the Lord. 00:25:14.067 --> 00:25:18.013 But it taught me some good lessons, amen. 00:25:18.013 --> 00:25:32.603 You know, I like that about my good friend the doctor because at church he was a servant, now in the world he was a big shot. 00:25:33.755 --> 00:25:35.240 But do you remember what Jesus said? 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:42.826 He said pray the Father, pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth. 00:25:42.826 --> 00:25:46.700 Did he say professionals? 00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:49.299 Oh, I know technicians. 00:25:49.299 --> 00:25:56.104 Jesus asked us to pray for laborers. 00:25:56.104 --> 00:25:58.840 Now, you know I'm Hispanic. 00:25:58.840 --> 00:26:03.859 Y'all, if you didn't notice that this tan is natural baby, it's God giving. 00:26:03.859 --> 00:26:08.758 So you know me and my people. 00:26:09.097 --> 00:26:11.442 We know something about labor work. 00:26:11.442 --> 00:26:15.519 We know something about labor work. 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.538 You know what a labor worker does is. 00:26:18.538 --> 00:26:22.105 He has to start early and he has to work long hours. 00:26:22.105 --> 00:26:27.852 Doesn't matter if it's raining, if it's cold and freezing, if it's 110 degrees. 00:26:27.852 --> 00:26:31.461 A labor worker has to get out there and get the job done. 00:26:31.461 --> 00:26:42.365 And a labor worker is not paid as much as the executive, it's not paid as much as the you know, professional. 00:26:42.365 --> 00:26:47.224 But yet without the labor worker we couldn't get anything built. 00:26:47.224 --> 00:26:54.256 No roads would be poured and no buildings would go up and our houses wouldn't be framed up. 00:26:54.256 --> 00:27:01.423 Huh man, you know Jesus asked us to be laborers. 00:27:02.414 --> 00:27:18.462 He said when you come to the house of God, no matter where your position is in life, no matter what you do in life, come with the attitude that Jesus had, that I'm not here for someone to serve me, but I'm here to serve someone else and I actually want to lay down my life for others. 00:27:18.462 --> 00:27:24.744 Jesus said Wow, this is the key to being great in the kingdom of God. 00:27:24.744 --> 00:27:27.163 Now, do you remember Jesus's attitude? 00:27:27.163 --> 00:27:29.779 We find it in Philippians, chapter two. 00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:33.228 Philippians chapter two, jesus own attitude. 00:27:33.228 --> 00:27:33.897 I'll read it there. 00:27:33.897 --> 00:27:41.567 Verse two says fulfill you my joy that you be like minded, having the same love, being one of cord and of one mind. 00:27:41.567 --> 00:27:42.608 Philippians, two, two. 00:27:43.170 --> 00:27:45.832 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory. 00:27:45.832 --> 00:27:46.837 That means arrogance. 00:27:46.837 --> 00:27:53.880 Nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem the other better than themselves. 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:58.865 Look, not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 00:27:58.865 --> 00:28:01.301 Listen, young people, I want to talk to you about something. 00:28:01.301 --> 00:28:08.116 Those of you who are 30 and under 20s do you want to know how to become great in this life? 00:28:08.116 --> 00:28:16.167 Forget about yourself and put your eyes, focus your eyes on something greater than yourself. 00:28:16.167 --> 00:28:22.143 You know why we're so depressed all the time, because all we do is think about ourselves. 00:28:22.143 --> 00:28:34.007 We think about ourselves and how I look and how who likes me and who doesn't like me, and if she likes me or if he likes me, or, and you're always thinking about yourself. 00:28:34.007 --> 00:28:53.724 But if you would get your mind off yourself and start thinking about the needs of others, you would find that life becomes very fulfilling and gratifying and the power of God and the love of God would begin to flow through you and God would actually begin to do great and mighty things in your life. 00:28:54.795 --> 00:28:59.026 Jesus said don't think about your own things, but on other people's things. 00:28:59.026 --> 00:29:12.423 Then he says let this mind be in you other translations, this attitude, this frame of mind, let this thinking be in you which was in Christ Jesus who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. 00:29:12.423 --> 00:29:22.342 In other words, jesus knew he was all that, he knew he was God, but yet he didn't think of it as some big thing to hold on. 00:29:22.342 --> 00:29:25.598 To Notice this verse seven. 00:29:25.598 --> 00:29:32.041 But he made himself, everybody say himself, he made himself of no reputation. 00:29:32.041 --> 00:29:34.682 See, this is something that pastor can't do for you, y'all. 00:29:34.682 --> 00:29:41.858 Pastor can't come up to you and say you need to be a servant, you need to be dedicated, you, just you, just. 00:29:41.858 --> 00:29:44.515 You just need to forget about yourself and you just need to serve. 00:29:44.515 --> 00:29:46.582 And I'm going to make you a servant. 00:29:46.582 --> 00:29:52.925 This is something that you and I, you have to do and I have to do. 00:29:52.925 --> 00:29:56.121 We have to do ourselves. 00:29:58.095 --> 00:30:04.636 Jesus took upon himself the form of a servant, amen, and and uh. 00:30:04.636 --> 00:30:13.423 He was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled let's say it again the word himself. 00:30:13.423 --> 00:30:15.700 He humbled himself. 00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:17.882 So this is Jesus's attitude. 00:30:17.882 --> 00:30:20.501 This is something he did himself. 00:30:20.501 --> 00:30:23.241 He said, father, I want to do your will. 00:30:23.241 --> 00:30:27.384 He said, not my will, but your will be done, amen. 00:30:27.384 --> 00:30:29.500 And then he took the form of a servant. 00:30:29.855 --> 00:30:33.964 Other translations say he took the guys or the outfit of a servant on. 00:30:33.964 --> 00:30:36.140 You ever go to certain places? 00:30:36.140 --> 00:30:37.718 I was, my wife and I. 00:30:37.718 --> 00:30:41.678 We just left the hotel this morning and the ladies were there cleaning and we tipped them. 00:30:41.678 --> 00:30:43.856 Real good, but you had to. 00:30:43.856 --> 00:30:45.362 They had a certain uniform on. 00:30:45.362 --> 00:30:49.163 They had the cleaning ladies uniform on, amen. 00:30:49.163 --> 00:30:54.065 Jesus said put that, put that servant's robe on. 00:30:54.065 --> 00:30:57.378 In another place it says, uh. 00:30:57.378 --> 00:31:01.146 When it says to humble yourself, uh, demote yourself. 00:31:01.146 --> 00:31:09.048 Another place, it says put on a servant's garment and don't let anything strip it away from you. 00:31:09.048 --> 00:31:17.698 Now and we're in a minute here we're going to talk about why this is good, because so far we're thinking okay, so I'm supposed to be a servant, like what's in it for me. 00:31:19.323 --> 00:31:20.686 Let's look here, notice here. 00:31:20.686 --> 00:31:28.238 He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross or the most shameful death. 00:31:28.238 --> 00:31:59.667 Therefore, god also has highly exalted him and given him a name or a title which is above every other name and every other title, that at the name of Jesus, every knee must bow of things in heaven and in earth and every tongue must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. 00:31:59.667 --> 00:32:03.200 You see, the God gave Jesus his name. 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:07.635 Yes, by inheritance, but, and yes, by conquest right. 00:32:07.635 --> 00:32:18.008 It was also given to him because he can you put that in the Amplified Bible, or no, the Amplified Classic. 00:32:18.008 --> 00:32:21.154 Go ahead and put there verse 9. 00:32:21.154 --> 00:32:32.673 It was given to him because he stooped down so low to serve others that God raised him up so high. 00:32:32.673 --> 00:32:33.395 Oh, there it is. 00:32:33.395 --> 00:32:49.287 Therefore, because he stooped so low, God has highly exalted him and has freely bestowed on him the name or the title, the title of authority that is above every other name, hallelujah. 00:32:49.287 --> 00:32:52.973 So you understand, young people. 00:32:52.973 --> 00:32:54.637 You understand that the more. 00:32:55.224 --> 00:32:56.528 This is the way my pastor says it. 00:32:56.528 --> 00:33:00.728 He says the way to go up is by getting down. 00:33:00.728 --> 00:33:04.596 The way to go up is by getting down. 00:33:04.596 --> 00:33:06.387 Jesus stooped so low. 00:33:06.387 --> 00:33:10.217 Why is Jesus' name above all others, above every other name? 00:33:10.217 --> 00:33:19.627 Because in his death, burial and resurrection, jesus served all mankind, past, present and future. 00:33:19.627 --> 00:33:24.896 At one time he served the whole human race. 00:33:24.896 --> 00:33:31.237 Jesus truly is the servant of all and he's our greatest example. 00:33:31.237 --> 00:33:36.355 This is how we can succeed in the kingdom of God, amen. 00:33:37.224 --> 00:33:41.248 So let me give you a few things here that my pastor taught me and I'm going to give them to you. 00:33:41.248 --> 00:33:50.656 You see, your gifts and your talents will be realized and also multiplied as you serve in the kingdom of God. 00:33:50.656 --> 00:34:00.775 Your gifts and talents will be realized and even multiplied as you serve in the kingdom of God. 00:34:00.775 --> 00:34:02.588 What is it, luke 16? 00:34:02.588 --> 00:34:04.252 Luke 16, verse 10. 00:34:04.252 --> 00:34:05.215 Let's turn there. 00:34:05.785 --> 00:34:17.855 Luke 16, verse 10 says this you can go back to King James he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. 00:34:17.855 --> 00:34:21.833 He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 00:34:21.833 --> 00:34:31.710 If, therefore, you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches you know, tithing and giving offerings. 00:34:31.710 --> 00:34:34.668 That's really just like an elementary test. 00:34:34.668 --> 00:34:37.978 God wants to test us. 00:34:37.978 --> 00:34:43.875 Prove us faithful with our money, mammon, so that he can bless us with true riches. 00:34:43.875 --> 00:34:56.025 True riches are something that money cannot buy, like happiness, joy, peace, love, like safety and security for your family, amen. 00:34:56.025 --> 00:35:07.878 But now notice verse 12, and if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own. 00:35:08.985 --> 00:35:10.590 You know, jesus constantly said it. 00:35:10.590 --> 00:35:14.750 He said I'm not here to do my own thing, I'm here to do the Father's will. 00:35:14.750 --> 00:35:17.097 He said I say what the Father says. 00:35:17.097 --> 00:35:19.550 He says I do what I see the Father do. 00:35:19.550 --> 00:35:24.672 He said it's the Father that bears witness of me, I'm not here doing my own thing. 00:35:24.672 --> 00:35:29.954 So Jesus was actually here working in the Father's field. 00:35:31.764 --> 00:35:37.373 David was out there taking care of his Father's sheep before he was promoted to be king. 00:35:37.373 --> 00:35:41.548 But you know, a lot of things happened to David while he was out there. 00:35:41.548 --> 00:35:47.173 He learned how to play the harp and he became the psalmness who wrote the book of Psalms. 00:35:47.173 --> 00:35:54.057 He also learned how to throw a slingshot and he learned how to swing a club. 00:35:54.057 --> 00:36:02.713 You know I love this part of David, right Y'all, if you know about me, okay, so he was a worshipper first of all, but then he became a warrior. 00:36:02.713 --> 00:36:09.927 I mean, a lion came and a bear came and David ran after both of them and killed them with his hands. 00:36:09.927 --> 00:36:13.295 That's one bad Israeli man, I'm telling you. 00:36:13.295 --> 00:36:17.271 And God empowered him to do those things. 00:36:17.672 --> 00:36:20.807 But all of this serving out there, he smelled like sheep. 00:36:20.807 --> 00:36:25.389 We got some animals. 00:36:25.389 --> 00:36:26.677 We got animals back home. 00:36:26.677 --> 00:36:33.117 And, trust me, when we come in the house, lisa says go take all those clothes and go put them in the washroom. 00:36:33.117 --> 00:36:33.786 Why? 00:36:33.786 --> 00:36:40.907 Because you smell like animals Horses and donkey and pigs and goats and we love it. 00:36:40.907 --> 00:36:42.291 But when we come in, she said why? 00:36:42.291 --> 00:36:43.855 So same with David. 00:36:43.914 --> 00:36:50.407 Here he is out in the father's fields, all of his other brothers come before Samuel and because? 00:36:50.407 --> 00:36:54.429 And they don't even think about David, the little servant boy out there. 00:36:54.429 --> 00:36:56.233 But yet God was. 00:36:56.233 --> 00:36:59.672