Peculiar Ain't Popular!
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Let us pray. Eternal God, we thank him. We praise your father for this moment.
we think you'll God said in the midst of This moment God. the father God, we
surrender.
We surrender. God, we, we surrender God and We recognize father God that if you got, don't enter into our circumstance, if you don't be God, then we will perish. So we pray God that you will speak. Who are spirits in this moment. God? This is indeed a mama's guy. We won't get back. So let us not be distracted. God or confused about the significance of the mama. God speak in this moment. A word of encouragement to your people that may be able to encourage this along the journey call life. This, we ask in your son, Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. To God. And God alone. Be The Glory.
You know, there is a word from the Lord its founding. Ax.
Book of Acts. The 1st chapter.
The 6th through the 8th versus book of Acts.
The first chapter. The 6th Thru the 8th vs. And I'm getting them up on the screen for your right now. Hey, man.
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Acts first chapter. 6 days versus a man. It looks like it might just work. Amen. Hallelujah.
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Ask the 6 chapter the first chapter verses 6 through 8, so when they had come together, they asked the Lord. Is this the time when you will restore the Kingdom of Israel? He replied it is not for you to know the times or periods that the father has said for set by his own authority.
Birthday, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my Witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. And to the ends of the Earth. You will be my Witnesses. Jerusalem and Judea. And Samaria and to the ends of the Earth. Hallelujah. Amen. I like to speak briefly from the subject. Peculiar ain't popular. Hallelujah. Peculiar. Is not popular peculiar is not popular a man as we live move and have our being day in and day out. It becomes pretty easy to conclude that life is filled with unknowns and we even get a little iffy on the things. We think we know. There's nothing quite like believing, you know, other people. I am believing that other people have a sense of who you are. Everybody here, has probably gotten to know a few folks in their lifetime. You sho nuff know, some of your own Kinfolk, right? I mean how they are and what they are liking, what they dislike him who they're kin to and how y'all I'm talking about knowing folks. I'm not suggesting, you know, everything about some or even that, you know, all of them, but you know, something about some of them and you feel like you come to know who they are. But you can probably agree that you know, even if you don't know everybody you probably know a little something about just about everybody that you coming to contact with what? Even if it's the the outward appearances and how they talk and how they handle themselves, how they their mannerisms. You feel like, you know folk Hallelujah identification. Amen, you are your neighbors and your co-workers, your friends from high school or college? And yes, even your church members your your fellow Christian those that Walkin talkin sing The Gospel of Jesus Christ, you know, like I know that if you live a little bit you had encountered, you encounter other folks that you identify with or have something in common with You know, your role in the same circles you like eating the same types of food were talking about familial arity and identification. The things that you have in common become the foundation for a relationship. However, if we told the whole truth, there also find out how he or she was a liar or archita how, how they were a bully or a manipulator, you know, I can go on and on about those, we thought we knew only to find out that what we thought we knew was only part of the story. They say one thing and they do now that they take more from your life rather than add to it. A man. I hope I'm not talkin about anyone here, you know, looking the part but struggling with in your To the Persona, you've projected taking my clothes hard. Look at people through the bond lenses to see what God sees. When he looks at people. Have you examined your own life? And in what you're projecting? Would God be pleased with the you people seeing more importantly, what would be the report that those that witness your living? What would they say about who you are? What what would they tell of a poke about who you are? Do you remind them of somebody else? What is you need special or different about you? Is there anything Hallelujah. Watchman, Nia? Christian teacher preacher and Pastor who was born in China in 1903 1903, spent the last twenty years of his life in prison because of his face, one of his most famous quotes with God is Not Seeking a display of my Christ likeness but a manifestation of his Christ. Amen. And he said, God is Not seeking a display of my Christ likeness my looking like Christ, but he's seeking a manifestation of his Christ. Are we guilty of getting out there trying to look like Christ perpetrating and projecting and presenting christ-like Tendencies to be in the Christian Club. Are we unknowingly or in some cases knowingly doing what we know and have been talked to do, but it is I'm trying to look like act like will be like somebody else. Beloved of God, even if the somebody else in Jesus, even if the somebody else is Jesus that were trying, we have to be careful to not emulate, only with Christ can authenticate a man. I'll say that again for your hearing we can't keep walking around looking like, you know that, you know, the worldly cliche, if it walks like a duck and quacks, like a duck is a duck. That's not true of the kingdom of God. God sees beyond the presentation. Steve beyond the vanir. God sees beyond the stuff that we want to project and have folk believe in what he's saying to us in this moment. Is that as the Beloved of even trying to be like his beloved Emmanuel, God With Us. The one that walked and talked to my men, Mary's baby. Even if we're trying to be like Jesus, we have to be careful. Not to emulate what only price himself can authenticate Jesus when he did walk and talk among, man. He was the one that said, that's that he would pray to the father in that the father would send the comfortable comforter. We know from from the gospels that when Jesus was baptized in the River, Jordan by his cousin, John, the Baptist that the Bible says that the heavens open up in the spirit of the Lord to send it like a dog. And he was led into the Wilderness to be tempted of the devil for 40 days and 40 nights, where you fasted songs from the book of Acts and accounting of a form of birth of the church in Chronicles. The work of those that walk and talk with Jesus, the apostles and how they continue to represent Christ because of the cross. Hey, man. They represent Christ after the work of the cross-state representing Christ because of the cross, one of the central figures in my opinion, is the most central figure of the book of Paul was not one of the original slow as I called. Paul didn't get to walk and talk with Jesus inside. Paul's life is most know what he did before. He was on that road to Damascus. Because he persecuted Christians. He was somebody in the world as a Pharisee. He was a notable. He was a most educated them. He was one of the most educated above.... There. Is he gone to the best of schools. New the Torah, the pitcher, talk to the Hebrew Bible quite well in all the writings, about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Hebrew people until he believed, you doing got a good day at work when he persecuted the Christians. Hey, man, we talkin about but you you're not popular. In our text, we received at that the, the word of God is is right before us. In that there's three key elements that I want a Luminator about peculiar and popularity. Those three words, those three things that we find in our text her or the words of God, and identity time, God and identity. We find inverse 6, so when they had come together, they asked what is this the time? Hey, man, you know time is something. Holy sacred and Sovereign unto God. It is something that he never delegated authority to manage to even have provisional authority over, but God and Jesus said that even he doesn't know when he's coming back, but it's holy unto the father. Time is starving Divine. And God says that this is the time but the time you talking about ain't. We need to talk about cuz he goes on number 7. And says he replied. Jesus replied. It is not for you to know, the times of the peers that the father has said in his own authority. But this is what you do need to know. You will receive power. Amen, you will receive the power from God to do it. All that God can do in the land of the living. And when you do Hey, man, you will become a witness a Hallelujah. God. So so this idea of time here. We, we, we, we, we got the reconcile and recognize that God is saying the same thing in this moment to us today because we know time is truly filled with swift transition. We don't know how much time we have to represent, God in spirit and truth, but to be a true representative. The most Salient point of what, what Jesus said Andrew is what he said in response to this, to this question. You will receive power why you yet here, my beloved brothers and sisters why we get have breath in our bodies. Who are we reflecting? Who do we look like, who has authenticated us? A man who has said that we are, who we believe we are at cuz I can tell you if it came from a man or woman a boy a girl a question. It's Hallelujah because the car for price can only be authenticated by Christ himself. He said that he went to the father. The Bible says that he's given us authority over all of humanity. You can find it in 17 chapter and the 4th verse is. So a man. He's been given authority of all of creation and because he has because he has, he knows. And we now know that this particular verse is, a consequential burst in the scripture that we represent Heaven because of what has been deposited down on the inside. After that. We are not his after that we'll perpetrating acts and that's where we're trying to be popular a man, but we're missing peculiar. Hallelujah. To be a God, to really reach down into your heart and cause your circumstances to change that. You may be able to look in that mirror and see through God's eyes that you want Rose. Hallelujah by, but now you're recreating your thoughts. You have it would be because of who God has been down on the inside and it's not been For Your Glory, has been for the glory of God because of whose lives have been affected as a result. I want to leave you with with these three things and I want to highlight them in the context of its of these three terms that time is not something, you're sure. So make sure you making good use of it,, Not a short. So make good use of it, is not a short. So make good use of the time you have.
Your days, my days. Or not known. Any moment could be our last moment. So what would people say regarding the life you live. They testified at your services. If they stood up to talk about what you meant to them, what they talked about, what you did for them, or what they talked about. How you like look, like, you were in Kingdom Center. What would they say about you? Which is that second part. If they can't. The second point of that, the mark of God can only come from God in that Mark, makes you perk Junior. You won't look like everybody else. You won't walk like everybody else your presence, even the demons tremble and we just something about this deposit. The Divine elements of who God has put down on the inside of the causes of the quite different from the others in the world. So many of us a walk around appearance, look like everybody else. Amen, the evidence is the final point, the evidence of this becoming a consequence of that your time is filled with swift transition, to recognize the time, and that is starving and all about God. It's recognized that the divine nature, an element of what God deposit, and being his very own Spirits down on the inside of these Earthen vessels recognized in this photo pieces. Identification, a man, you know, we, we know that folks saying we've we've even said ourselves. Why are citizenship he isn't here but it's in heaven. We say that we are royal priesthood a holy nation. We received a multitude of things that we know the Bible says, but do we look like what we Prosper site? Do we look like what we say what other folks testify with what other witness that the mark of Crisis, is all over your life, and I asked you the question, because Who you are? I won't get you into heaven. If you listen to what the nacelles say. What they say was, what them have said about you was, but Mom and them said it was Dad and them said he even what the pastor, don't say that. Unless it that witnessing your spirit that you belong to him. You're not is a matter. Only the spirit of God. And the Bible says, and ask one and eight that when you've been filled with the Holy Ghost, when you waited and waited and waited and God on the at the right time and the right place called in your life to be transformed from Darkness Into The Marvelous Light, that you will be coming with me. You will began to talk to everybody about all the things. Concerning God in the heavens. You will begin to encourage those that are downtown. You began just to walk with. At least among us if you begin to 12 and make it to feed the hungry, still won't just be deep in a come from a place. You can't describe, but you also cannot deny the market application. That's that that you belong to Heaven that your name has been written in the Lamb's Book of Life. We're talkin about peculiar not being popular popularity contest, don't want to roll with it with the witches witches. Roald Dahl's no more and not want to be with your ride or die. No, more into your ride-or-die. Become. What does says the Lord, it ain't getting nowhere, but death and destruction. Jesus said to the disciples do that. He walked and talked with those that you stand on two occasions out to buy to Performance Home. Medical. He said he even looked at in Chapter 19, Verse. Don't, don't, don't, don't get all high-and-mighty because the spirits obey you, but but, but but give God glory, because your names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life that all things work together because of who God is and who God has become down in these Earthen vessels identification identify with Christ is to be identified the Holy One of God, the holy spirit of God. Here in the earth. Amen. Peculiar. A popular. We have to make have a made-up mind that we're willing to lose this life to gain price. We have to have a, a made up my mind that we're not trying to impress. Nobody. We have to have a mate of mine that it doesn't matter that they talk about us that they despitefully despitefully musing, abused us at. We have to have a made-up mind that the life we live right now is not the light worth a life without a game. When we have to give an account for our stewardship, on this side of Heaven, it is Consequences for us to recognize that when we receive power of the Holy Ghost, only the power of the dark and that it is the authentication by Christ that we are here is no more perpetrating, no more pretending. We get to keep it 100. Once we got the Holy Ghost. That's the word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God, ain't popular. But we going to keep on marching towards the mark of the high calling that is in the through Christ Jesus. Who is our Lord, because of the deposit of God down in these Earthen vessels that enables us to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we could ever ask was thinking, it's all about God. And it's all this was all for the people of God. Thanks be to God, the God be the glory and amen. Hallelujah, to you. Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, God. Peculiar ain't popular. Hey, man.
I asked you right now, too. Wherever you may be close your eyes for just a moment and consider all that. God has brought me through. Consider your Beginnings as far back as you can remember.
Every child every moment where you thought you weren't going to make it everything you didn't think you could make it through the loss of a parent. The loss of a child parent happening. Child. A man that despitefully use them used taken advantage stuff. Like I think about all the things that you do.
Where you are, and how God is brought you through, and then take consolation that he's never left your no forsaken. You that someone here? That doesn't know that, God loves them and loves them, and then loves them and won't stop loving them. Even in the midst of all that. There's somebody here that that struggles to believe that that because this is not that they're not good enough for somebody. That is not a short. Among The Peculiar they don't know what's special about them, but I pray right now in the name of Jesus. I still close it. If that's you. That you reached out. And allow Lustre to walk with you. We don't have a place to take your other than the place that can reconcile all matters concerning the human heart and that's the Throne of God. You can reach out to us via this Zoom. Put your name in the chat on, reach out and call us at 909-350-9401. Or you can email us about 4. Santana att.net. But even if you do none of those, but you want the assurance that you can be accounted Among The Peculiar. I pray that you will simply utter. These words after me, Lord God. I didn't know what, I didn't know. But now that I know that, I know that, I know that, I know, I pray that you will forgive me of my sins. Come into my heart. And save me. If you fixed your heart to open it up to God, to relinquish your will and turn your will over to the far. Then Jesus says that you have now entered into that place in space. That is for the elect that place in space that only God can declare you belonging. Welcome to the family of God. Hallelujah. Amen. To God, be the glory. Time is well spent I won't belabor but I give God praise for all that has gathered here with us today. Hey, man.
All that has gathered with us here today. Hallelujah to God. Be the glory, a man. Can you hear me now? Hallelujah, Glory, Hallelujah. I heard I was frozen. Hallelujah. Amen, but I'm on, I'm on Frozen now to God be the glory. I think everyone that has to be encouraged. Don't know how you showed up. But I pray that your left invigorated revised again because of who God is down on the inside. And that as we prepare to leave this place, that God will never leave the presence of his people. Let us pray.