Dimensions | The Day of Mega Is Over As We Know It (Part 3)

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Transcript

Return To Rapture And Readiness

Calls To Subscribe And Share

Global Signs And Keeping God’s Mind

Secrets Revealed, Mysteries Unfold

Patience, Waiting, And Direction

Pray Beyond The News Cycle

The Pressure To Perform In Church

Servant Leadership Over Mega Mentality

Staying Humble While Stewarding Influence

Matthew 23: Titles And Heart Posture

Loving Honor Versus Loving Titles

Woes: Burdens, Showmanship, And Seats

Weightier Matters: Justice, Mercy, Faith

Clean The Inside First

Whitewashed Tombs And Missed Visitations

Repentance And The Heart Of Worship

Live What You Preach

Closing Prayer And Next Steps

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You know, the Bible says in Daniel chapter 2 and verse number 20 that God is a God that changes the times and the seasons. Ladies and gentlemen, indeed, we are in a time and season shift. Whether you realize it or not, prophetically God has changed the times and the seasons. And one of the things that I've been talking to y'all about, I'm going to continue to talk to you about even now, is how the day of mega as we have known it is over. The day of the mega minister and the mega person and the mega personality and the spiritual superstar. That day is over. God is doing a brand new thing. And if you're listening and watching, I'm about guaranteeing, some of you are tired of how church has been currently constructed. And it's not that everything that we did in the past was wrong or it was part of a season, but God is now doing something brand new. And I believe there's some things that while God allowed certain things to happen, there's some things that people are tired of. And God's ready to do something. I believe that even the best things that God has that He's offered to us can be abused. And I believe that people are tired, sick and tired of being sick and tired, and they're ready for something brand new. Let me encourage you and let you know that as we have previously known it, the day of Mega is over, and God is getting ready to do a new thing. I believe you're going to be blessed by today's episode of Dimension. As I give you part three, I'm going to talk about in Matthew 23, about spiritual leaders and what Jesus warned how spiritual leaders need to be aware of. And I don't believe it is any different in his day than it is now. And that doesn't mean that every minister is bad, but it does mean we need to make sure we're lining up with the word of God. All that and more is coming up right now on Dimensions. Coming at you live right now, here on Dimensions, five days a week. That's right, Monday through Friday, every single evening at 8 p.m. Yes, yes, yes. Bringing to you the word of the Lord in the prophetic now, speaking those things to you that I feel God has put upon my heart to help you keep oil in your lamps, love in your heart, and sin and leaven out of your life, to prepare the body of Christ for the return of Jesus Christ because he is coming back. And we've got to be prepared. We want to be that bride without spot, wrinkle, or any such blemish. You know, as a matter of fact, when's the last time you heard a great message on the rapture? Most preachers don't even talk about it anymore, and yet still the Bible says it's our blessed hope. It's the very thing that as these things are going on, he warns us in the book of Matthew, chapter 24, and Luke 21, when you begin to see all these things, look up, because your redemption draweth nigh. Your redemption is coming, my redemption is coming. Jesus Christ is coming back soon. And we want to be prepared. We want to be like the five wise virgins that had oil in their lamps. Amen. And as a result of that, they were illuminated in a dark time and they were insulated in a cold time. You want to have illumination and insulation, and that's what oil in your lamp does for you. And that oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit in and throughout our lives. So I want to encourage you to continue to tune in to Dimensions and take a moment right now. And if you haven't, please do so. Like, subscribe, follow, and share. Click on the little bell there if you're watching by way of YouTube so you get notified whenever it is that we drop something brand new to you here from Dimensions, and it'll be a blessing to you. And I want you to go to wherever podcasts are being held. Make sure that you download and subscribe to our Dimensions podcast. That's right. Get the podcast. Because as soon as this live portion is over with, we upload it, and therefore it'll come right to your whatever device that you have, whether it's your phone, your iPad, your computer, wherever you got a podcast, uh, if you've subscribed to it, we are going to come right to you so you never miss any episode, and you can be the latest, guess what, family member of the Dimensions Podcast. So I hope to be able to welcome you and to join you. And uh as we walk together and find out what the word of the Lord says. Now, I want you to go with me, if you would, to Matthew 23. You know, the times and the seasons are changed. Matter of fact, I didn't plan on going into most a lot of this here, but as we take a look at what's going on over there in Iran and the bombing and now the uh uh uh the the the uh killing of um uh the with Khomeini, uh that we see what happened there, and five of his top ten officials were killed in action. They were killed, they're ambushed and uh brought to death. And uh that is a spiritual sign that something new is on the horizon there. Something is coming uh into the earth. And you've always got to keep a lookout in Ezekiel, Ezekiel chapter number 38, because that is the battle of Gog of Magog, and one of the nations in there is Persia. And most scholars believe that Persia, mentioned at that time, is present-day Iran. So, with that happening uh and the new regime that's probably coming, um, we've got to keep our eye in the things of the Spirit. One of the things the Lord spoke to me, he said, make sure that everything you do throughout this year, make sure you keep the mind of the Lord, keep the mind of Christ in your life. And you say, why is that? Because this will be the year that, watch this, this is important, that secrets will be told, mysteries will be revealed, and dreams will be realized. I'm gonna say that again. Secrets will be told, mysteries will be revealed, and dreams will be realized. And what do I mean by that? Secrets. The Bible says the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he'll show them his covenant. The Bible says that we in 1 Corinthians chapter number two, that we speak wisdom amongst those who are mature. Yet it's the hidden wisdom of God in the form of a mystery. What does that mean? Where the scripture says in verses 8 through 10, it talks about how when Jesus was being crucified, that if the devil would have known that he was crucifying the Lord of glory, he never would have done it. So that means there could be things happening in the earth that people outside of the mind of God think they're on the right track, doing the right thing, but yet still be deceived and end up going down the wrong path because they did not have the mind of the Lord and they misinterpreted what the Spirit of the Lord was doing in the moment. That's why I want to encourage you real quickly. If there's something going on in your life and you seem confused, you seem perplexed, you're asking yourself, why am I in this? And it seems unfair. Don't get frustrated, don't get angry, don't get offended and make a rash decision. But there's a scripture that God gave me recently. He said, in patience, possess ye your souls. So sometimes in the middle of things, watch this, in the marination comes revelation. So sometimes while you're waiting, it's in the waiting that God begins to reveal to you the things that you need to see and know about the current circumstance. So don't get haste, don't get don't rush in haste, don't get anxious, don't, don't get antsy. Just wait upon the Lord and allow him to reveal. And if you don't know what to do, don't do anything until you know what to do. But realize that we are in a pivotal moment, in a pivotal season, because God is changing the times in the season. Whenever God changes times and seasons, he will give you an act and an order of instruction that you must take. And you do not want to miss the day of your visitation, which I believe is right now. So we need to be praying over for our troops, for America, uh, for all those involved in this war that's going on. Uh we need to pray against retaliatory spirits. Uh, we need to pray uh for against sleeper cells and all sorts of things that could go on and uh realize that God has all in control and get the mind of the Lord. Don't look at it through the natural eye, don't look at it through CNN, don't look at it through MSNBC, don't look at it through Fox News. You might get your instruction there of what's happening. You might get the news rather, but you get your instruction from the Lord to what it is that I need to do. How do I need to react? What do I need? How do I need to think about this? Even in your own life, you may be facing some things right now, wondering how you're gonna navigate them and get through it. Get the mind of Jesus Christ. Get the mind of the Lord, and he will give you direction, he will give you wisdom, and he will give you guidance in Jesus' name. Amen. That's good. Preacher right there. Go with me to Matthew chapter number 23. Matthew chapter number 23. We're gonna look at verse number one. And I talked to you on Thursday, I believe it was, and Friday, about how the day of Mega was over. And I didn't get a chance to get into Matthew 23. And I talked about how platforms have been abused. I talked about how uh many people feel all this pressure to perform. And uh, we take a look at now, uh nowadays, you know, people are always so concerned if I don't get the people to move a certain way, and uh people don't shout and run around, and we don't have church, as they would call it, then I'm not doing a good job. And they may not have me back. So men and women of God feel all this pressure to begin to perform and to put on and to give a good show, regardless of what we say or the anointing that shows up, we just need to have a good show so people want to come back after having church. So this is the reality that is not from God. No man or woman should ever feel pressure. And I want to talk to you for a moment here in Matthew 23 because Jesus gives a rebuke to the Pharisees and begins to speak to them. And I want to see if there's some things we can see in the modern church today that are kind of reflective of how Jesus rebuked them for certain things. Now you have to understand something. Everything about Mega, and I'm gonna say it over and over again, everything about Mega is not bad. Being big is not bad, having a lot of people is not bad, having a jet isn't bad, having money isn't bad. I don't think any of that's bad at all. I think it's what we do with it, how we use it. I think it's what we do with people concerning it. I think uh the bigger the platform God gives us, I believe the greater the servant we have to become. I don't think no matter how big a pastor is, no job should be too big for him. Jesus, the king of the universe, the Lord and Savior over all of us, the master, the one that never ever sinned, on the night that he was being betrayed, still washed all of his disciples' feet. Think about that for a moment. How many preachers and bishops and pastors and apostles and evangelists and teachers will wash the feet of their people. You know, one of the things I've realized is that if you do not like uh uh uh if you don't if you don't like sheep, don't be a shepherd. If you don't want to smell like sheep, don't be a shepherd. Leadership is not about position or title. It comes with those things. But Jesus said something and we've lost sight of this, and we don't, how come people don't preach about this at pastors' conference? You know, people don't talk about any of this stuff. He that's the greatest among you, let him be your servants. I wonder how many people with mega mentality still serve the least of these. I'm not saying, oh, I'm saying this is what Jesus said to do. Now, let me tell you something. Before some of y'all start thinking I'm hating on mega ministry, I came out of mega ministry. I know all about it. I have nothing against the fact that ministries are big. I think it's phenomenal. I love it. What I'm saying though, because I believe mega ministry, it can impact small churches, big churches, that mega mentality, it can affect anybody. I've seen people with 20, 30 people in it treat their people like slaves. Treat them, I mean, like you would think, oh my goodness. And we have forgotten that no matter how big we get, no matter how much God has blessed us with, we are called to serve. No, no, no, no. Let me help somebody. Not just from the pulpit. That's the easy part. I'm talking about when you get out of the pulpit. I'm talking about we serve when we're out of the pulpit. I talked to somebody one time. I think they're one of the greatest examples on how to stay humble. I realize that no man or woman is perfect, but some of my favorite people when it comes to mega type ministry that have that mega status, um, that have kept the right mentality is David and Nicole Binion. I shared with them all the time. I asked them, I said, I sat down with them and I said, tell me, I'm curious, how do you have such a large ministry, such a great anointing, and still stay humble? What did you do to do that? You know what they told me? They said, we kept a home church, and when we got there, we served in our home church. They said that was, I was thinking, like, you know, maybe it's gonna be this prayer that they prayed or something like that. They said, no, no, no, no, no, we we just, when we go home, we serve our pastor. We serve that. This is David and Nicole Binian. They are one of the largest, if not the largest, uh, names and all of praise and worship in certain in certain places. I mean, there's other people that have come up as well, but they are some of the most humble people that you would ever, ever meet for real, for real. And that's very hard to find in this day and in this hour. And I believe that's why God trusts them with so much. But I wonder how many mega people, and it doesn't matter who you are, I don't care if you're a leader in your church, I don't care who you are, if you have a title, you should not be above serving. Just because you have a title and you've been in the church a long time doesn't mean you get to come late and leave early. You need to be the first one there and the last one to leave. That's why a lot of people don't get promoted in this day and hour is because they're not willing to serve. Jesus said, He that's gonna be the greatest among you. Think about that for a minute. Let him be your servant. Wow, how powerful is that. So let's take a look at what Jesus rebuked about uh the different individuals that were here. Uh, Matthew chapter 23, let's look in verse number one. Then Jesus spoke to the multitude and to his disciples, saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Wow. Therefore, whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do. Now watch this. Jesus separates the man from the mantle. Whatever they tell you to do and to observe, do it, but don't do according to their works. For they say and do not do. Wow. Jesus showed us how we deal with people that are preaching the truth, but don't live it. He said, Yeah, observe it. Do it, do what they tell you to do, but don't do, don't live how they live. You ever heard people saying, uh, do as I say, not as I do? That's actually biblical. Now that's not good, not a good message for a leader to share, but Jesus said, hey, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The bathwater might be a man or woman of God that isn't living it, but what they're saying, you need to take heed to, and you need to make sure they do. Why? Because ultimately you're going to answer to me. Now look at this. For they say and do not do. Look at verse 4. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. Reminds me of the Pharaoh. Remember, I've talked about that two episodes ago. How the pharaohs had them build brick without the straw, which I believe is symbolic of doing the work of God without grace. Just do what I tell you to do. They drive them with a whip, they make people feel guilty. They manipulate, they use fear tactics, manipulation tactics, all these types of things. And I believe with all of my heart, listen, we need to honor men and women of God. We need to be respectful. We need to honor pastors. That's why I don't call pastors by their first name. It doesn't matter who you are. My brothers, my family that have titles, I respect their titles. It doesn't matter if you're family or not. Some of you are watching right now, and your family may be a person in position in the church. You don't call them by their first name. It's amazing how people dishonor people because of familiarity. No, you don't do that. You don't disrespect somebody. You honor those titles. You honor the positions and the office, and then God will richly bless you. It doesn't matter if it's family, it doesn't matter if it's your uncle, your aunt, your brother, it doesn't matter if it's your sister, it doesn't matter if your mom, your dad, when you are at church, then they walk in that title there. And this is the thing, I want to transition back to what I was saying here because there are many men and women of God that are pharaohs treating God's chosen people like slaves, versus using their anointing, their grace and gift to serve them and to develop them. They use it to build for them. Look at it, they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move one of them with their fingers. Look at verse 5. But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. They love the best places that feast the best seats in the synagogue. Man, think about that. Pastors and ministers gotta have the best seat. I gotta sit right up front. Now listen, hear me now, hear me now. I'm not saying it's wrong to have a front row seat. What I'm saying, they love them. It's kind of like how the Bible says, money's not the root of all evil, it's the love of it. How do I tell when I'm I'm a I'm a hypocrite? How do I tell when I'm not being real with my heart and I've lost my servant's attitude? Because we love the blessed, the best places at the feast. We love the best seats in the synagogue. I want to be up front why they want to be noticed. They want to be number one. That's the mega mentality. I want to be number one. I want to be the man. Doesn't mean we don't honor men of God. Doesn't mean we don't honor women of God. Doesn't mean we don't honor officers. It's not about the honor that's given to them. It's how we expect the best seat, the best place, the best hotel. I'm going, I want the best of everything. Why? I'm not here to serve you. You're here to serve me. We have taken the honoring of men and women of God. Men and women of God have taken the honoring of that in order to turn it to get what they want out of people. That you need to honor me. You need to do this so I can get what it is that I want out of you. I'm preaching better than some of y'all are shouting right now. Let's take a look at this here. They love the best places at feasts. They love the best seats in the synagogues. They like greetings in the marketplaces and need to be called by men. Rabbi, rabbi. You know what he's saying? They got to have their titles. Listen, when I tell people that you need to honor people with titles, it's not so then we can feel better about ourselves. It's for the express purpose. See, see, this is the thing. It's not wrong to have a title, bishop, pastor, apostle, teacher, whatever else that it might be. Where the issue lies is that you love those things. Look at it, they love the best places at the feast, the best seats in the synagogue. They love the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, rabbi, I love having my title. But you do not be called rabbi, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Now he's not saying that it's wrong to have a title. What he's saying there, don't be one that looks after those titles. He said, Don't, because what watch this, watch this. Let me show you something. If you notice there, you got to take it within context. He's talking about rabbi, and then he's talking about brethren. So he's saying, don't be called rabbi, rabbi, rabbi. You're all brethren. So he's saying, even if you have a title, don't allow that title to make you forget your position. You're not higher than anybody else. You're supposed to be someone's brother. My good God Almighty. Do not call anyone on your church father, for one is your father who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers, for one is your teacher, the Christ. Look at verse 11. Now, once again, it's not saying because obviously he gave the five-fold ministry gift. He's talking about people that have to be called this stuff. I need it. I gotta have a title. I gotta be important. I gotta be this. He's like, don't worry about all that. Because why? Now he brings it back home. So you got to look at that and take it all within context. But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Where's that in today's pastor's conferences and ministry leaders' conference? I can't remember the last time I went to a pastor's conference and they said, Hey, hey, I want to challenge you all. Uh give up your best seat. I want to challenge you all to wash the feet of others. I want to challenge y'all. If you're great and you've got a phenomenal ministry, that you do something to help somebody that's the least of these. I want to challenge y'all. We don't hear that. We don't hear that. In this day and hour, everybody, I'm the big dog. I want to be the big man on charge. I want to be the big woman in charge. And once again, it's not wrong to teach honor. It's not wrong for those things, but you want to know how you honor people. You want to know how you get honor by serving people. You don't demand it. You get it by serving. Now, there are some that won't honor either way because the culture of honor has been lost. But I believe if we will get back to honoring the things of God, then the people that are called by God will honor the men and women of God that they need to. Look here, whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. I believe that's why we're seeing so many different ministries crashing in this day and hour. I think a lot of times there's been a lot of, and that doesn't mean every person I'm saying, but there's been a lot of exaltation of self and a lot of exaltation of my ministry and what I'm doing and who I am. And I think God's saying He's done with that. That's why the day of mega, as we've known it, is over. As we've known it. It doesn't mean that mega itself, that God won't have any big ministries. I know a lot of great uh ministers and pastors that have larger churches. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's what we do with it and how we use it. Verse number 13, but woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for he shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. For ye neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye travel land and sea to win one proselyte. And when he is one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourself. Wow, I mean, think about that for a minute. That's quite a that's quite a strict word right there. Woe to you, blind guides, who say whoever swears by the temple is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it. Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? And whoever swears, what Jesus is going back, getting back to the heart of worship, getting back to what really is important, not all these man-made things that have been developed. Those aren't the things that are important. What's important is getting back to the kingdom. Fools and blind, what is greater? The gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift. Therefore he who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it. He who swears by the temple swears by it, and by him who dwells in it, and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you pay tithe of mint and anas and comment, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law. So one of the things you'll see is that scribes and Pharisees don't judge correctly the things that are really important. There's certain things that are important that they focus on, but they don't focus on the weight. Like, for example, you pay tithe of mint. They talk about the tithe, but you've neglected the weightier matters of law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to have done without leaving others undone. Listen, I want to share this real quick. That's for people that don't feel that tithing is for today. Well, there you go. Jesus said you needed to have tithe, but you need to make sure justice, mercy, and faith. See, you can't be a shepherd if you're not merciful. Hallelujah. You can't be a pastor and a shepherd if you don't have justice and faith. Those things are important. And Jesus begins to weigh in on those blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. Wow. So think about it for a minute. You know, so you focus on these little things. But then the bigger things that you really should be taking care of, them are the things that you're overlooking. These are the bigger matters. Jesus is getting all up in their grill, and they didn't invite him to his barbecue. Look at this, verse 25. Would you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites? For you clean the outside of the cup in the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Wow. So begins to talk about how everything on the outside looks good. We've got the all nice, the we've got all the garbs, and we've got the titles, and we have the best seed, and we have all sorts of things that make us look good on the outside. But on the inside, we're full of extortion, self-indulgence. Think about that for a minute. Things that we want. Blind Pharisees first cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish that the outside of them may be clean also. Wow. So he's saying deal with your heart. Doesn't mean you have to be perfect, but he's saying, how is it that you clean up all this work to do outside so what everybody looks at looks good on the inside? That's why a lot of pastors and ministers find themselves in a place of moral failure many times. And we all have weaknesses and shortcomings. It could happen to any one of us, and I say it with all humility. I don't mean that, but I'm saying I think a lot of times what happened, we get so busy doing the work of the Lord that we forget about the Lord of the work. And we get so busy going higher and higher up the food chain, going higher and higher up into the things of the kingdom of God that we want to have, the best seats, the best, all these things. And we're losing our religion, if you will. We're losing our relationship with Jesus Christ. And as a result of that, eventually the weight of ministry crushes the carnal character of men and women of God. And as a result, they're ext, they're they're exposed for how they have lived. Look at this here. Verse number 27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Look at this, for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Think about if you've ever, if you've ever uh been to a place where you could smell a dead body, the whole outside looks good. But if you open that up, it's like, oh man, it just reeks of death. Even so, you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous and say, if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophet. Therefore you are witnesses against yourself that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up them the measure of your father's guilt. Serpents, broad of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of? Therefore, indeed I send you prophets, wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify. So you can see what happens when you get around religious people. They'll want to kill and crucify what the Lord has sent amongst them, because they're not of his sheep. And some of them they will scourge you in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all righteous bloodshed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Barekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Assuredly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. Wow. This is his rebuke to the church when he is about to visit. Now listen to me. I'm sharing this with you. If you read on, I'm not gonna read through it now, but uh in Matthew 23 and verse 37 through 39, this is where he gives his his he's basically he shows up to Jerusalem wanting to gather the leaders in the church in, but they missed their visitation. They had missed their opportunity, and he shows them what's gonna happen. Now, listen, the same way he came the first time and they missed it. God is going to return for his bride the second time, and many that are caught in this will miss it as well. And it's so important that we understand uh the importance of God creating me a clean heart, renewing me a right spirit, that we don't lose a servant's heart, that we don't lose the heart to serve, that we don't lose a heart to be a blessing, that we don't lose the heart to minister to others, that we don't allow our love to grow cold, that we don't allow our hearts to grow. That's why you keep oiling your lamp and loving your heart and sin 11 out of your life, ladies and gentlemen. It's so vitally important that we understand these things. If you read through this, he's showing the showing us through the scriptures how a person can miss their visitation. And there's just tons of things that he begins to talk about. And it's all outward things, but the inward is not purified and not made cleansed. God, that you would keep us from becoming arrogant, that you would keep us, God, that we would stay humble, that we would keep ourselves at the cross, that we would become, listen, no matter how big you become, no matter what God puts on your life, never forget to serve others. If you want to find a quick way to become disqualified, just stop serving. No matter how big you get, it doesn't matter, listen, this one want you to see. It doesn't matter if you have a title, it doesn't matter if you know you have a position, it doesn't matter if you have a seat, that's the best seat. The problem is now where now watch this. Where you need to check yourself is when it bothers you that you don't have the best seat. When they when when they don't reserve one for you. Sometimes God does that just to humble you when you don't get recognized, just to reveal, hey, why is that important? Because it shouldn't be. We're supposed to be humble here. We've all had times in our lives if we're honest where uh God can check those areas and say, hey, hey, hey, you're getting a little too big for your own britches. Come on, somebody. Stay humble, stay teachable, stay, stay humble, stay, stay in a place where you can be corrected. Stay in a place where people can uh speak into your life that need to speak into your life. Stay in that place and watch what God will begin to do in them through your life. I wanted to take this moment here to talk to you about the mega, and I believe that this is all the prescription right before Jesus is gonna come back that we're gonna see in the church again. It's already here, and I believe this is a time that we need to make sure we repent. And Lord, I'm sorry. The scripture or the song has been in my spirit lately is I'm coming back to the heart of worship, where it's all about you. It's all about you. I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it when it's all about you. It's all about you, Jesus. Hallelujah. So let's make it about the Lord and let's keep him at the forefront of all that we do. And let's make sure he's a priority. Serve God's people when you do it unto the least of these, my brethren, you've done it unto me. Keep a servant's heart. Keep yourself from this here. Don't judge men and women of God. You know, if they're not doing right, just make sure you can recognize it. You know, just make sure you can identify what it is that's going on. You realize that's now how to follow. And that's the most important thing I want to leave you with. Jesus starts it off in the beginning of it all, and he says to them in verse number three again, therefore, whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but don't do according to their works. Then he goes on and explains all of their works, but their teaching can be correct, which is a very scary place. Watch this. You can be you are anointed, and you can be anointed to preach it, but may not even be anointed. Well, you are, but you have to live it. You're anointed to live it, but you got to work out your salvation. See, when you're anointed to preach it, it comes easy. Living it is something that you've got to earn. So don't be one of those people that's anointed to preach it, but refuses to live it and to do it in Jesus' name. So, Father, I thank for every person watching. Bless them in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father God. Lord, if we're gonna do any, Father, we're not gonna be mega, we're gonna magnify you. And Lord God, we're gonna stay small, Father God, in all that we do. And Father, we thank you, giving you the praise, the honor, and all the glory. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, I hope that you enjoyed this episode. I enjoyed teaching it to you. I'm gonna be back tomorrow. I've got some other things prophetically I want to share with you. Some things that God's been putting in my spirit about the importance of how to bring the presence of God back to the body of Christ. I believe that we're in a season that God is repositioning his body, he's repositioning his people to bring his presence back into a greater way. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. The Ark of God is on its way back home. I'm probably gonna talk to you about that tomorrow. I hope that you'll tune in at 8 o'clock. Don't forget to download the podcast. Don't forget to like, subscribe, follow, share, click on the bell. Keep up to date with what's going on here in Dimensions. And I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night at 8 p.m. See you then.