ESC Worship - 2-18-2023

Hey man. Amen. Good morning. Happy Sabbath.

You know. Today is really a great day for me Sabbath. School was wonderful.

I enjoyed. and,

Savage schools, very important part of our service. There any visitors here to look around and everybody sits in the same place with the same person. Go forward, 2 minutes or 3? I like for us to get up. Move around. Say, good morning. Shake a hand. Give a hug. Just let somebody know that you are glad to be here. And you are happy that they are here to worship with you. So just 43 minutes, quickly get up shaking hands and give her a hug and let him know that, you know, we here to get a man.

Amen. Amen. All right.

until you know or have you ever been someplace and you have to go to the that room and you run all the way across down the hallway and around the corner and you get over there and you grab that door handle and they got that little green thing showing

they're reacting to you. Are you going somewhere? You know, when you you have to go to an interview with some innate, a okay, you go down there, go down the highway turn left and it's room. I and he'll be waiting and you go on there and it got that sign up interviewing process occupied Today's title of the sermon is occupied till I come. You turn to Luke chapter, 19. Verses 12 and 13. Luke chapter, 19. First 12 and 13, and we're going to read it together when you have it. The same man.

they were reading from Luke chapter 19, verses 12 and 13 verse 12 says, he said there for

He said there for a certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself, a kingdom, and to return. And he called his ten server and delivered them to 10 lb and said unto them occupied. Amen. Amen. Word of prayer. Do you have any father? I just ask that you fill me with your spirit that the words I speak will be your words. The thoughts I have will be your thoughts and this message will be delivered to your people. Clear and pristine, where's that you feel this whole place with your spirit in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Occupy. Occupies the action word. It's a word that means to take up a a place to reside, or to have one's place to take possession or to hold on or to feel See, a lot of people think that's word occupied. I don't mean just to be there. Nope, I'm standing up here and I ain't got nothing to say.

Golden or the occupied you have to do something, it means you got to do some work. See.

It was meant for us to continue. The work that the Jesus started his ministry. Which is winning souls for the kingdom. Portulaca pies to invest with the intent of increase. If you invested in the ministry that Jesus started, are you investing for money?

What about property?

See when you invested in this ministry. You invest in for a greater thing, you are the best thing is to win. Souls to the kingdom, we not winning souls to this church. We ain't trying to win them to the conference. We're trying to win them to the king. He is, sometimes we get really caught up, we get caught up in denomination, but in the Bible, it don't say nothing about nomination. It's a Christian. and if we going to win, souls to the kingdom, somebody maybe a Baptist today and hear your message and be a Seventh Day Adventist. But we have to be willing to put that message out. You have to be able to tell the truth cuz we do have our Information and let them know.

Where is souls to the kingdom? Thing that we can do. Guitar, the Roman verse 12. I mean, chapter 12.

Romans. Chapter 12, we going to read verses 5 and 6.

You have it just say, man.

so, when you

When you have a tie, which God gives you Romans 12:5 and 6s. So we being many Are one body in Christ and one member. 1 /. No. Having been gifts. Deferring, according to the gray. That is given to us where the prophecy, let us prophesy according to the portions of fake, God gives us gifts. We all have a towel and when he gives you that Talent, it may not be the same as the person beside you, but what that Talan is used for is to win souls to the kingdom. Some of us are the good speakers. Some of us are good singers. Some of us are good organizers. Some of us pray better than the others are. So when you feel the talent God has given you and you start using it. You know what happened? People start coming to you start drawing. People treat other people about you. and as time goes on, Your investment of friend starts to develop what that increase. And as long as you are doing it in the spirit of God, we can do nothing. Will be making a mistake. So that's the increase that you would, we're looking for. God said he want us to use our time Our talent. And I tired. good time that he's asking for, is the time that you think you don't have The talents that he needs you to on the talents that he gave you. That maybe you haven't even recognize that yet. Are you don't think it's a talent for you? And you're tired, we all pay a time. We have to get back to him. So what are we doing? When we occupy Vgod is it bad? Stinking X. Sometimes we looked prayer warriors officer Church the conference.

We will start off on fire. Do you go by Johnny starts? Where is staying at? It's a long journey but for some reason we start to fade out for some reason, we did this in chain discourage, And we get detoured in that serves.

We have to look at our self. See, I can't blame the pastor. I can talk about it, but it ain't true. They blame the elders night. They fall. I'm not doing what God is required of me.

It's mine. That's because I refused to accept and use the talents that God has given me. So, we spend a lot of time, looking at everybody else rather than looking in the mirror, Rihanna work. The guy has four. It's a work that you can always look forward to. It's a work that. You always want to do. It's not like your job, telling your job. You work there and work there and all you can look for his retirement. You can look for retirement in this job. You can work this job all the way to the end. And you always receive something back. I always even though,

Knowing that you have done everything that God has asked you to do.

That's a return. so, we have to be able to say, you know, I'm at work till my fully I may be physically down. I may get mentally down. But I'm not going to retire. I'm not going to retire from this work 2nd. John 8.

2nd John verse 8. You haven't seen me in. It says look to yourselves. That we lose. Not so things which we have raw, but that we receive a full reward. Are You full? Not not a. Half a reward, not a little bit, but you want a full reward when God sends you out to do some work and you doing that. Work for the Lord led by the Holy Spirit. What is the reward that you should expect?

It's going to be a full reward. As long as you live by the spirit, it's when you deviate is when that reward starts to get cut short, but we never, we never do want to get a half, a reward, you want to get a full God promises that. This work is not just to take up space feel. I've been just want to watch We are coming to church and sit in the same seat, get up and go home, sit down and come back to church. Sending we occupied Are we taking up space?

Taking up space. being is funny because the people that take up space, they have opportunity to do witness to their neighbor, the opportunity, to witness to the person they work next to me, they even have an opportunity to talk to his brother and sister here in church and help them with something. Maybe they have been through. But because they're silent because they're not occupied, they're just taking up space. The person they sitting next to next to is going through something that they could help.

Do now. This is what happens when you just taking a space. Do you have to go with me right here? Turn the Mark chapter 14?

When you get there. Same man.

Mark chapter 14. Vs 32 through 39.

Okay. Now, what? Now we stay occupied mean action, right? You can't just be sitting still. I can buy mean, you got to do something. Here we go down to 2:39 and they came to a place which was named get simony, and he said unto his disciples sent you here while I pray. And as he take it with him Peter and James and John, and they began to be sore with deeply, distressed a man's. And it was very and you meet to be very heavy. And he said, I'm just damn, my soul is exceedingly, sorrowful Terry here, and why, okay? Now watch is a action word. Watch means to occupy watch right here. I need you to be right here and I need you to occupy this spot. And I need for you to watch. That's where you at occupy this spot and watch. And he went forward a little while fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible that our might pass from him, he said, I have a father. All things are possible on Tuesday. Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what Now, we are now he's already told him to watch. Which is occupied word is action. And he cometh and find it them sleeping.

Do you know the disciples? They are sleeping and he said, I'm asleep is down. YouTube occupied to watch.

Couldn't knock down. Watch 1 hour.

Are we sleeping coffee day? Went to sleep in. Jesus showed up. Are we going to be sleep when Jesus shows up now? Occupied till I come watch, Watch and Pray. Do you want Jesus to have to? Wake you up? Hey.

I wanted you to watch in prayer. I wanted you to take care of this. I wanted you to do. My my work, do my bidding, take care of my, the things I was trying to do work my Minister and you don't want to sleep.

How long were you asleep?

How long are we going to sleep?

He just asked him to watch. Penny went to sleep.

That ain't seen everything. Jesus is done here, all his works. Just as we know that he did because we have it right here with no question about it. Are we going to be call to sleep? Cuz it tells you we know not the hour. We have to be occupied. We have to be awake.

We're starting to lose.

I thought we starting to lose our Direction. Because we want to compliment. I want to take a nap. I know you always sleep. I'm just going to take a nap.

and in the time that you taking that now she just still might come pass you by so, even though you get weary Even though you get tired. even though you feel like you can't make it, See, when you doing this work. You have. Your sights set on what you doing, but you know, you need divine intervention. You need to be led by the spirit if you not led by the spirit of God. You going to you going to leave yet? The holy spirit will lead and guide you. You pray first, ask for the spirit, Holy Spirit, lead and guide. How can you go wrong? Even if the road gets rough, even when your eyes get hit, when it seemed like, ain't nobody listening to you every door that you knock on nobody answers at your job. When you start talking about Jesus stay running from but as long as the spirit of God is leading and guidance missing you can think they ain't paying you no attention. You can think they running but because they heard you telling somebody else then go home and sit down and be like man. What he was saying to him that I need to talk to him myself so we can't give up, never give up. Scotty gave up on us. Jesus and quit on us, baby. How can you put on him? We can't do that. We can do it. Say in the holy spirit will lead and guide you. But now I'm all we doing is coming to church. And we not occupied and we sleeping on Jesus, it could be rough. But now, he'll and wife and this is from February 17th, it's a weird. Look. Says the work before us. Is it worth of Love Mercy. Just in Christ lines just as Christ work. The human aging is to work with the Divine. We are not to feel that all we have to do is attend our own individual self. We are to occupy till I come. And what does that mean to be laborers with God? Not without me to be in Imperial impute, excuse me with Spirit of Christ. We are filled with the spirit so God Spirit can flow through us like a powerful River and impact of

That's what it takes. You can't go alone. You can't it won't work if you go by yourself. If you go on your own and think that you don't need the spirit of God, you got a problem. you going to be sleep, like they was sleep, and Jesus is going to come We have to stay away, we are called to serve him. We can call to be is willing and obedient.

Do whatever we are called to do. Sometimes got to call you to do stuff. You don't know nothing about that.

Really, I don't know. I'm going to try it.

Might get a little rough and get a little rough. I can always go back. Can go back. Can't go back. You can't, you're not going to let you go back. Think about Joan. What are you trying to go with you trying to get away? He was trying to get away. Ain't going to happen. It's not going to happen. When God send you an already been there, already laid that you can tell you where we going to be in January on fall down and skin. You need to tell you when you going to bump your head, but the one thing you have to remember, no matter what happens when he seen you, he going to get you back up. You going to put some ice on that bump. You going to get that money together. And the next time you come across, this is going to be easier. He's going to make them smooth.

Willingness to witness to those who don't follow Christ. Wow. What's the West, what's going on? I mean, there's some people that scared to knock on doors unless it's 10 of them. but when you go and the spirit of God, go with you,

Yeah I'm from the East side church around the corner if yeah. Brother I just want a guy sent me over here to do this and I'm going to do it and what y'all do when I leave ain't my business but I'm doing what God told me to do. Have a good day. See you. See, I ain't got the call around. Hey, can you go with me? I'm going to go across the street. I need sister Robin sister. First, brother, feels, can you go with me? We going to go over, to doing all kind of stuff, but I suppose you, I want to pass out, tracts over there if y'all want to go with me. Okay. Call we going, we going to get right here and pray first and the spirit of God, don't go across the street and clear that all up so that we can smooth it. Don't make no difference. If you was raised in this neighborhood or if you came from South Carolina, when God go before you get straightened out and if God be for you, who can be against? Come on now, quit being scared.

Beautiful. So, we have to believe.

We have to tell those people about his love, his Mercy is Grace and his Plan of Salvation. See when people see you when they see me cuz I don't talk about you. I know where I came from. Ain't no secret. and if he can do it for me,

you look like the 7th to Wednesday people to give you a beer for they give you a sandwich. A lot of people don't want to admit that they was out there. They don't want they want. Don't want to tell you that they was doing it.

but if you transparent, and you eyes That's when you win more souls to the king. You can walk around walk right up on and maybe like, do what? Yeah, I ain't give passing that other stuff. I'm passing out tracts. You don't passing out Jesus. And people respect you for that and then they get hold. I saw that dude. And he talked about Jesus Jesus. Something is going on that. Got to be a good thing. Our brothers and sisters, Any cry so that they'll go forth and spread the good news as well as looking for. Time Warner. So I'm I'm looking for a lawyer in Kersey, you know, where this guy on my job, he always cuss me out. Maybe you need it. Now look, brother. Pray with no matter how bad he talks to you, no matter how bad he treats, you don't stoop to his level. You pray first, talked to him and God will work it out. You can work it out by yourself. Don't, we have to be able to let the person sitting next to you. No matter what you going through, God got you, as long as your faithful, he got you.

So, we need to occupy till I come. Cuz he's coming soon. So, we all understand occupiers a action word. We got to work. Can't be afraid. You got to be able to stand up. For the truth. What we have right here.

so, when the time comes, We won't be asleep. but if you ready to occupy, And you were occupied, we going to work with the Holy Spirit. Can you stand one more? Damn it up. If you ready to occupy, you don't want to just sit and take up space. You ain't trying to go to sleep. Take a nap, we understand that this work to do is work. It's not. Nothing ain't going to be easy. Not going to be easy, just got the devil going to make it as hard as he can. But we here standing up today to let the devil know. There we go, occupied. We going to occupy to Jesus. Come we going to work. We going to pray. We going to watch. We going to knock on doors. We going to pass out tracts and we going to pray with each other. We going to lift each other up and no matter what you do devil. God got you guys. Dear, heavenly father. We stand before you today. With a pledge. That we were occupied until you come. We were occupied no matter where we are, no matter what neighborhood, no matter what job we are going to occupy and we will occupy under the power of your spirit. That no matter how it comes or come, what may, we will always professed to be your child and we will always speak your truth. We just asked father God, that you continue to lead and guide us with your spirit protecting keeper.

Instill in us. The desire to go out. And to spread the good news of your son's return. National bless all the families represented here. All those that are standing and give them the power. occupied, no matter where they are, and to tell people about you, Bless and keep us all in. Jesus name we pray. Amen.

You know, today.

You may have come here.

With someone will come by yourself.

Maybe you tired of just taking up space. You ready to occupy? You know, you've been going places sitting around. What is work to be done? Do you want to work? You want to be somewhere where we will knock on doors. We going to occupy, we going to let people know about the goodness of Jesus and you tired of just sitting down.

If that's the case, you stand the doors of the church over. We just here to follow God's leave at about, man. It's not about this person or that person, that's the spirit of God is going to leave us around me.

And time is running short.

Time is running short. Good morning to come back and catch you sleep.

You do not the hour that he's going to return.

What is always? It's always a blessing. Be here in the house of the Lord. To be able to hear his words and for me to actually be able to deliver his words. But I'm just thankful that he chose me for today.

Do you have any father? We come to you as humble as we know how thank you, Father God for your words today but then your message will be was clear pristine and it all that heard. This message will be change with no longer set and watching Slumber, but we will occupy and work. Work. When you sold to your king. Bless and keep us all in. Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Amen.