0:01

told by some

0:32

of the most bitter people are

0:35

sanctimonious always

0:37

judging other people because

0:40

they have no appreciation for what

0:42

God has given them

0:45

they sit in the seat of

0:48

judgment God has

0:50

a purpose he

0:52

has predestined everything according to

0:54

his own will I

0:56

looked up purpose is

1:00

it literally means the reason for

1:02

which something is done or created

1:04

or for which something exists the

1:07

reason the reason for

1:09

which something is done or created

1:12

for which something exists

1:14

that's its purpose the

1:18

purpose of this black box is

1:21

to be an instrument that

1:23

produces sound so that

1:25

as I am speaking I can hear

1:28

myself I could

1:30

use it for a lot of things I

1:33

could sit on it I probably question but I could

1:35

sit on it but that's

1:37

not its purpose I

1:39

could stand it up sideways and eat dinner

1:41

on it but that's not its purpose what

1:44

I must do is find its highest

1:47

and best use because

1:49

it was designed for a

1:51

purpose and if

1:53

I use it correctly I

1:55

am using it for its highest purpose and

1:58

if I use it for anything else

2:00

I am abusing it.

2:07

Yeah. So all

2:09

the people that contorted you into what

2:11

they needed rather than what he had

2:13

purpose, they

2:19

abused you. The

2:22

reason for which a thing exists

2:24

or was created is purpose.

2:28

So purpose is not about

2:31

what happened, it's

2:34

about why. It's

2:37

about why. And I have noticed

2:39

the funniest thing about most people. Most

2:41

people when they call you up they say, I got something

2:43

to tell you, you know. And

2:45

generally you know there's some gossip. And

2:49

if you a gossip her and your petty,

2:52

you say child, what happened? Nobody

2:56

says child, why did it happen?

3:01

Because petty always wants to know what.

3:10

Purpose always wants to know why.

3:13

When you start understanding the why

3:15

and let me tell you some

3:18

ministers, you cannot help people if

3:20

you are focused on what they did. If

3:28

you focus on what they did you are

3:30

petty. Ministry

3:33

begins when you start praying

3:35

about why they

3:39

did it. The

3:42

problem with the world today we have too

3:44

many what preachers? And

3:47

not enough why. They

3:50

know principles, they

3:52

know when you broke a principle, they

3:54

know that your disciples shouldn't be cornered on

3:57

the Sabbath day, they know

3:59

that you shouldn't be healed. and this woman on

4:01

the Sabbath day, don't you know the sun

4:03

has gone down? They know what? They

4:05

don't know why. What

4:08

will make you bitter and petty?

4:11

What will make you miss your purpose?

4:15

You want to know why? The

4:19

greatest question is

4:22

why? Everything

4:25

begins with boom. And

4:28

until you start asking why, you'll never

4:30

be a great pastor, you'll never be

4:32

a great preacher, you'll never be a

4:34

great orator. You must ask why. When

4:36

you read the text, you must ask

4:39

why. When you face the people, you

4:41

must ask why. When you hear the

4:43

news, you must ask why because you

4:45

can't get in there where the surgery

4:47

needs to occur to make them better

4:50

if you don't know why. If

4:52

you walk, if Mephibosheth comes stumbling up

4:54

to you and you don't know

4:56

why he's stumbling, you'll make fun of

4:59

him. But if you understand why

5:01

that somebody dropped him, you'll be

5:03

able to minister him more effectively

5:05

because you understand why. When

5:08

you understand why, you say, it was

5:10

good for me that I was afflicted.

5:12

Had I not been afflicted, I would

5:14

have never discovered the purpose of God

5:16

for my life. Am I talking to

5:18

anybody tonight? You

5:20

know, we're studying the purpose of

5:22

God, which he had purpose in

5:24

himself. Oh, I'll let me stop.

5:26

God let me stop. Which he had

5:29

purpose in himself. He has purpose in

5:31

himself. He didn't meet with the board.

5:33

He didn't talk with the committee. He

5:35

didn't get the legislators to vote on

5:38

it. He didn't ask Congress to pass

5:40

a law. Everything that God ever set

5:42

out to do because he's sovereign, he

5:44

purpose in himself. When he said,

5:47

let there be light, there was

5:49

light because he purpose did it himself.

5:51

When he said our servants separate the

5:53

firmament above the water from the firmament

5:55

beneath the water because he purpose did

5:58

himself when he got ready to make man. He

6:00

didn't need a woman. He said let us make

6:03

man and all likeness and in our

6:05

own image Because there's nothing in the

6:07

God head that God needed to complete

6:10

him He

6:15

purposed in himself If

6:18

he purposes me to live I live if

6:21

he purposes me to die I'll die If

6:24

the car wreck wasn't meant to kill me I

6:26

don't care if it's a head-on collision

6:28

at 90 miles an hour I'll get

6:30

out the plane can crash and I

6:33

walk away what God has for me

6:35

is for me I'm talking about the

6:37

purpose of God. You can't have faith

6:39

till you learn this This is what

6:41

your faith is built on. This is

6:43

the recipe of your faith Your faith

6:45

must rest in the purpose of God

6:48

Jesus didn't teach have faith. He said have

6:50

faith in God Are

6:58

you hearing what I'm saying? He

7:05

didn't mean for Abraham to have a

7:07

son when he was strong and burrowed

7:11

Cuz who wants to write about that Everybody

7:15

do that He

7:18

waited till his body was good as dead

7:21

and his wife was past childbearing age. She

7:23

had gone through the change And

7:27

she could have had a child before she went through

7:29

the change and when it was

7:31

impossible with men God

7:34

purpose now I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna

7:36

put my signature on it You're gonna know

7:38

it was me that did it as soon

7:40

as you discover that you can't do it

7:42

You're gonna find out that it was me

7:45

that did it You

7:47

still gotta go in the tent, but it's

7:49

gonna be me that did it You you

7:51

still gotta spend the night, but it's gonna

7:53

be me that did it Don't you walk

7:55

out the tent with your chest all stuck

7:57

out old man because it was me

8:00

that gave you power. Oh, it

8:02

is God that gives us power to

8:04

get wealth. It is God that gives

8:06

us the power to get wealth. He

8:09

doesn't give us the wealth, he gives

8:11

us the power. Glory

8:13

to God. Let's

8:18

talk a little bit about petting because purpose

8:21

isn't petting.

8:25

And you have to understand what

8:28

it means to be petty.

8:34

To be petty literally

8:36

means of little importance, trivial,

8:43

as in both groups are

8:45

known to be petty.

8:48

Now I want you to think about this. It didn't

8:52

say that petty meant

8:54

non-consequential. It

8:56

didn't say that it didn't have any value,

9:00

just little value. Trivial

9:04

matters. Doesn't

9:06

mean that it doesn't matter. It's

9:10

trivial. Petty

9:12

people always focus on

9:15

trivial things, small-minded,

9:20

spiteful ways, as

9:23

if he was prone to be petty,

9:27

revenge on friends, and finally

9:30

narrow-minded, of

9:32

secondary or lesser

9:34

importance. Lower

9:36

rank, smaller

9:39

scale, minor, a

9:42

petty official. Now

9:45

what I want you to

9:47

understand about this, that just

9:49

because they are petty doesn't

9:51

mean it doesn't have any merit. It

9:53

just means that it's minor, small.

10:00

trivial things. Petty

10:03

persons showing or caused by

10:05

meanness of spirit, a petty

10:07

revenge is a petty person.

10:11

You'd be surprised. Now, this is

10:13

gonna rock some people's world. You'd

10:16

be surprised at how many people who

10:18

are saved or say they're saved. But

10:27

they're still petty.

10:32

They're still petty.

10:37

The reason I

10:40

say purpose isn't petty is

10:42

because most religious people who

10:46

were sanctimonious and would read this

10:48

text would

10:51

never see

10:55

that the gateway

10:58

to possessing the

11:01

first city would

11:03

be a prostitute. He

11:09

placed the prostitute on the

11:11

wall, positioned her in a

11:13

particular place to

11:15

be the gatekeeper to

11:18

his promise. Petty

11:22

people couldn't see past what

11:25

she was. Oh,

11:34

I'm gonna preach before I leave here.

11:37

They couldn't see past what she was to

11:39

see why she was. Petty people would never

11:42

ask, why has God put her on the

11:44

wall? Purpose

11:55

isn't petty and

11:58

you won't really begin to fully get

12:00

God till you understand that God

12:02

is a God of purpose and

12:04

not a God of petty. That's

12:08

why God uses people you don't like. Come

12:12

on, come on, somebody

12:14

be real. Has

12:16

there ever been somebody that you

12:18

didn't like and God used them

12:21

anyway? Never

12:28

have we needed your support more vitally than

12:30

we do right now because we are on

12:32

the move for God. And if you have

12:34

not been on the move for God, I

12:36

want to challenge you to get busy and

12:39

get on the move doing what God created

12:41

you to do. In whatever

12:43

field you're in, God planted you

12:45

there for a reason to be

12:47

the salt of the earth. All

12:49

ministry is not about pulpit. All

12:51

ministry is not about singing in

12:53

the choir. All ministry is

12:55

not about clapping your hands at church.

12:57

Whatever you're doing to help live,

12:59

change, fortify, strengthen people, you are

13:02

in the ministry. Everybody who's got

13:04

a ministry, stand up on your

13:06

feet. That

13:10

ought to get everybody, yeah.

13:12

We are laborers together with

13:14

God in Christ Jesus. How

13:16

many of you are believing God to bless your

13:19

ministry, whatever it is, if

13:21

it's doing hair, if it's putting on

13:23

makeup, it's still a ministry. She

13:32

lies to protect

13:35

the spies. Now,

13:38

what we're talking about, get this, I want you to write

13:40

this down. What we're talking

13:43

about is the struggle between

13:45

principles and purpose.

13:51

It's not that the principles are bad. It's

13:54

just that any time your principles become

13:57

more important than your purpose, you

13:59

have to. missed who your God is.

14:03

There is a struggle between

14:06

principles and

14:10

purpose. And

14:13

when it comes down to a choice between

14:15

principles and purpose, God

14:18

will always choose his purpose. The

14:23

law was principles and

14:25

the Bible said what the law could not do if there

14:28

was weak through the flesh. God

14:31

sent his own son in the

14:33

likeness of sinful flesh and foreseen

14:35

condemned sin in the flesh that

14:37

we might be the righteousness of

14:39

God. If God was more concerned

14:41

about principles and purpose then the

14:43

law would have saved the world.

14:47

The law was nothing but principles.

14:50

You can only walk so far. You

14:52

can only move so much. You can only

14:55

say when the sun goes down you can't

14:57

do this. Woe unto the neighbor do not

14:59

mix this fabric with that fabric. The law

15:01

was nothing but principles. So

15:05

we struggle between purpose and principles.

15:08

Should we disregard the principle? Absolutely

15:11

not. It's

15:13

just that we cannot exalt our

15:16

principles above

15:19

his purpose because

15:22

sometimes God uses

15:24

people that

15:26

you wouldn't approve of to

15:30

accomplish his purpose in

15:33

your life. Are you hearing what

15:35

I'm saying to you? Let's go a

15:37

little deeper because I want to unravel

15:39

this. Look at Amos 3, 1 through

15:41

3 for a minute. Amos

15:43

chapter 3 verse 1 through 3. Hear

15:46

this word that the Lord has spoken

15:49

against you, O children of Israel, against

15:51

the whole family which I brought up

15:53

from the land of Egypt saying, You

15:56

only have I known of all the families

15:58

of the earth. Therefore, I

16:00

will punish you for all your iniquity."

16:02

God is talking to his people. He

16:05

says, can two walk together except they

16:07

be agreed? How many times

16:09

have you heard that third verse? But

16:12

you didn't hear those first two. So

16:15

we use that, can two walk together,

16:17

say they agree to talk

16:19

about human relationships? Well,

16:22

Lord, have mercy if that's true. I'd have

16:25

got a divorce the first year. I'm

16:29

married today because we got two cars. We

16:32

ever get down to one car, I don't know. I

16:36

don't know. I'm just saying, I don't

16:38

know. Maybe,

16:41

I don't know. I don't know. I

16:43

don't know. We don't agree. I'm

16:47

packed for next week. My

16:49

wife don't know what she's going to wear tomorrow. Yet

16:53

we've been married 42 years. We

17:02

walk together through life, through death,

17:04

through sickness, through health, for better,

17:06

for worse, for richer, for poor.

17:09

But it wasn't because we always agreed right

17:13

in the middle of the worst places. We've had some

17:15

of the worst arguments. Because I

17:17

thought we ought to do this. And she thought we ought to

17:19

do that. So

17:21

when we take this scripture that

17:23

is about God's relationship with his

17:25

people, and he says, if you're

17:27

going to walk with me, you've got to be in

17:29

agreement with me, even if

17:32

you're not in agreement with each other. And

17:34

when you take the text out of context

17:36

and apply it to people, now

17:42

you're talking to the spies. What

17:44

are you doing at Rayhav's house?

17:49

How can two walk together, say

17:51

they agree? It don't

17:53

look right for you to be up there. Truth

18:02

out of context is a

18:05

lie. God wasn't concerned

18:07

about it.

18:10

I'll show you another one. 2

18:12

Corinthians chapter 6 verse 15 through 18. Take

18:15

a look at this. Oh my God, I'm

18:17

almost out of time. Jesus helped me. Can

18:20

I run over about 10, 15 minutes? 2

18:25

Corinthians chapter 6 verse 15. And

18:28

what concord has Christ with Belial, or

18:30

what part has he that believeth

18:32

with an infidel? Come on. And

18:36

what agreement have the temple of

18:38

God with idols? For

18:40

ye are the temple of the living God. As

18:42

God has said, I will dwell in them

18:44

and walk in them, and I will be

18:46

their God, and they shall be my people.

18:49

Come on. Wherefore come out from among

18:51

them, and be ye

18:54

separate, says the Lord, and touch

18:56

not the unclean thing, and

18:58

I will receive you, and

19:01

will be a father unto you, and ye shall be

19:03

my sons and daughters, saith the

19:05

Lord Almighty. Did he

19:07

say it? Absolutely. Did he mean

19:10

it? Absolutely. Who

19:12

was he talking to? Why did

19:14

he say it? He was talking to

19:16

Corinth, who was

19:18

establishing new converts. There

19:21

were new converts in the middle of Orgis and

19:24

idolatry and evil and wickedness, and he

19:26

told them, come out from among them,

19:28

and be ye separate. You're

19:30

not ready. You can't handle it. You're

19:32

getting drunk off a communion. You're committing

19:35

incest in the house. You're not ready

19:37

to witness to these people. Come

19:40

out from among them, and be ye separate, and

19:42

I will be your God, and ye shall be

19:44

my people, because I see you. You're

19:46

worshipping me and Belial. Why

19:54

would God say to all of the

19:56

church, come out from the world, and

19:58

be ye separate? and then

20:00

turn around and say, go into

20:03

all the world and preach the

20:05

gospel to every living creature. I

20:07

can't go into all the world

20:09

and come out at the same

20:11

time. Any

20:15

time the text is taken out of context, you

20:17

destroy the validity of the text. I'll show you

20:19

one more, Proverbs 13, 22. Take

20:22

a look. A

20:24

good man leavers an inheritance to his children's

20:26

children, and the wealth of the sinner is

20:28

laid up for the just. Take a look

20:30

at this. The wealth of the sinner

20:32

is laid up for the... If it's laid up for the

20:34

just, how you gonna pull it down if you don't touch

20:37

them? If you don't talk

20:39

to them, if you can't be

20:41

seen with them, if you can't go anywhere

20:43

with them, if you don't have no business

20:45

with them, if you're supposed to remain separate

20:47

from it, how is there gonna be a

20:49

download of wealth? In our text, there's a

20:51

download of wealth. The wealth of the sinner

20:54

is laid up for the just, but in

20:56

order to get it, you had to go

20:58

in where sinners go in order to get

21:00

it. In order to get it, you had

21:02

to go in the rehab house. In order

21:05

to get it, you had to be entangled

21:07

with people, and it didn't look good, but

21:09

in order to get the download, God didn't

21:11

promise to bless you through church folk. I'm

21:16

gonna say it again for the people in the

21:18

back. God didn't promise to bless you through church

21:20

folk. I see Christians

21:22

say some crazy stuff about

21:24

my position. My

21:27

surgeon was a Christian. That's nice,

21:29

but can he operate? My

21:32

pilot is filled with the Holy Ghost, but can

21:35

he fly? What

21:39

are you doing with so and so, and

21:41

they've been on my Twitter all the time. What are

21:43

you doing with so and so? What are you doing

21:45

with so and so? You with sinners all the time.

21:48

You got on the plane, you didn't ask the pilot,

21:50

what he say? You Go to

21:52

the family reunion with your uncle,

21:54

and you still at the family

21:56

reunion, and you brought potato salad,

21:58

but the moment you see something...

22:00

audio you turn up there though

22:02

because you heard some about a

22:04

marlboro possible supposed to the spa

22:06

still stay in her house. you

22:08

repeat that report before the proposals.

22:10

it was pretty good as new

22:12

what town a woman it was

22:14

it was his face he would

22:16

help of jesus not know that

22:18

see what the sooner rather. Than

22:22

I thought. Have yet to see

22:24

this is fried. I'll admit this

22:26

woman was history of you are

22:28

more religious a job. At all

22:30

He wants him for my

22:33

thoughts and says it for

22:35

your price because her through

22:37

prefer your folders. Your work

22:39

with sitters married so frivolous

22:41

children are a smoker River

22:44

added I beg your pardon

22:46

Up you know about other

22:48

people for the love of

22:50

god willing to do a

22:52

favour. Your credit is your

22:55

father's job at is your

22:57

son is your credit noodle.

22:59

Three purpose. You

23:02

would have platforms. Take

23:05

the whole series. Food

23:08

and you a believer? To

23:12

use a proxy to. Rid

23:15

Of Friends describe. And

23:19

in the Twentieth Troopers to

23:21

the Twenty First verse, now

23:24

because She said the spas

23:26

now they save her. From

23:33

a robot. Read

23:35

it as if if I'm wrong. With

23:38

me begin to save her. Favor

23:44

whole fabulous,

23:46

They say they save her father.

23:50

Recruiter mother or move above of

23:52

through the food all be a

23:54

brother were with her. Who

23:57

were then. They wouldn't.

24:06

A mobile service Credible. Sources:

24:11

Six Twenty to Twenty

24:13

Five is a profound

24:15

prolific are To Kill.

24:17

It's depiction of the

24:19

grace of God because

24:21

improves to us, God

24:23

kept his word to

24:25

a prostitute. Texas

24:28

as a deadly as a

24:30

wall came down the to

24:33

see it go found gray

24:35

hair. And save

24:37

everybody in her house according

24:40

to your oh. God

24:43

Save everybody in

24:45

the house. Because

24:48

he kept his word to

24:50

a prostitute. Now here's my

24:53

question for you is God

24:55

kept his word to a

24:57

prostitute. What

25:00

makes you think said Hot

25:02

Water Keepers World War Two.

25:08

Surface. Just supposed earth from

25:10

the way to com or the

25:12

bible says they pulled our whole

25:14

family outside sit outside the house

25:16

herbivorous so that when the city

25:19

was burn about rehab that burner.

25:23

oh I protons are should a

25:25

burned up but i didn't sign

25:27

up because got set mere thought

25:29

I'd say who are not not

25:31

prevent him from a good i'm.

25:35

Not I'm a president who have

25:37

not worked. Up. All

25:41

hope is that when I think

25:43

that the goodness of and all

25:45

that is. So

25:48

far. Has

25:52

been not exhibit. Of

25:57

course. Where.

26:04

People in this room. That

26:07

are living. In

26:09

an M. You

26:12

are Not was used to be. What's

26:15

your not? Were you gonna be? You

26:18

suck up stuff. That

26:21

became permanent. Staff living in

26:23

limbo and focus on dad's promises.

26:26

Why are you. In

26:30

limbo for. Your gift to support

26:33

the only see that is rented this

26:35

sub region. He thinks he's targeting fantasies

26:37

for your environment as well as digital

26:40

access to the disruptive conversation see. Swept

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