(237) “One of Heaven’s Best-Kept Secrets—The Joy of Serving” with Dean Braxton

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Think about this, Sharon. Just think about this. Here it is. God's telling you to do something,

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lay hands on somebody. All right? You're thinking, do I have the faith to do it?

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Doesn't matter if you have the faith to do it or not, if you're a servant.

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Beautiful. Beautiful.

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All of a sudden, you have the faith in the one that told you to do it.

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Yes.

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And because he told you to do it, then you get the results.

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Yes.

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Because you're serving.

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God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring. We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We have with us one of our very favorite guests, Dean Braxton. And we're going to talk about his

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experience in heaven. And he's going to share with us one of the best kept secrets of heaven,

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the joy of serving.

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Oh, Dean, it's so good to have you back with us again. We are just delighted that we get to

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do this a little more often in the days that are coming ahead. And, you know, we've kind of hung out

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on the subject that we that we did the last podcast we had with you. And we'll put a link

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in the show notes to that podcast in case people didn't get a chance to hear it. But you were

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talking about the importance of rest being a significant part of your authority and walking

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in that and about how the Lord spoke to you to give your body to him that you hadn't done that

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you'd given your spirit to him. You were working on your soul realm, giving him that by praying

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and by reading the word and, and lining up your soul with him, but you hadn't ever given your

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body to him. So we've since then done two podcasts on give your body to God. And then we did one on

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the feasts. And then we did another one on does Jesus dine with you and about how to take care of

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your body in terms of what to eat and letting Jesus show you, let the Holy Spirit teach you how

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to eat. So I want to just go back to Romans chapter 12 and verse one, and just kind of review that

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before we do a springboard into the next topic. Sure. I'm reading from the, from the Amplified

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Classic. I appeal to you therefore brethren and beg of you in view of all the mercies of God

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to make a decisive dedication of your bodies, presenting all your members and faculties as a

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living sacrifice, holy, devoted, consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable,

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rational, intelligent service and spiritual worship. Yes. So the question I want to ask you is

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what about service? Is there something that you learned in heaven about our reasonable service?

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I love your book, Deep Worship in Heaven, and I really highly recommend everybody read that one

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and your other books as well. But that one I'm just soaking in that it's our reasonable service

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to worship, but there's something about service that I feel like the Lord wants to open up to

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us today. Would you just take us there? Well, I can't take you there and thank you Sharon and

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Phil for having me. It's been great to be able to share like this. So as I emphasized, I think the

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last few times I'm an evangelist. And so my major goal is to go out and share the gospel so people

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come to know Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior. Amen. But with you guys, I get to go a little bit

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in a different direction, deeper in the sense of teaching some of the things that I experienced

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with the Father and Jesus in heaven. And so I really thank God to have this opportunity. That's

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not that I get to do it everywhere. Just recently I was just telling you, the Lord was re-emphasizing

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I'm an evangelist first, heaven is second. Talking about heaven is second. So my major goal was to

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go out and get people to know Jesus. And then recently I even said, because I love to pray,

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and I spend a lot of time in prayer, He said, you know, you're an intercessor. And I love to spend

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time praying and interceding for people. I just can't even, maybe someday we'll get into that.

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I have so much joy when I'm praying for people and interceding for people. You know, it just brings

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a joy in me like I can't even describe. And some of the people out there that are listening to this,

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it's probably the same thing. So I have this intercession, evangelistic, and then heaven.

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You know what I mean? Where some people want it to be the other way around. No,

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those are the things that I get to do for the kingdom of God. But one of the things that hit

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me when I got to heaven was I always thought that when it said we would rule and reign with Him,

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that literally we would have parts of heaven that we would be in charge of.

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Oh my.

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And that I would literally have that crown that I was going to be given. And I would be like a king

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in my sense, and you would be the queen in your sense. And we would rule a section of heaven.

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And heaven is huge. So it isn't that people would not have a place that they would rule or not.

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Right? And it's expanding every moment. You know, I always tell people it's larger now than it was

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when I was there years ago. Because God is life and life expands. It doesn't stay stale or shrink.

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It grows and it grows and it grows. And we see that even on the planet because that nature or

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that ingredient was put here on the planet. When things are alive and they get what they need to

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live, they expand. They just do it. They just get bigger and bigger and bigger. And then,

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yeah, because of the planet deterioration and all that stuff, then they die. But in heaven,

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nothing is dying. So everything is expanding and expanding in such a way in order, not out of order.

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Right.

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It's like chaos there. It's in order. But saying that to you, here I am in heaven and I'm coming

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to the grass that serving good is the tops. And everything, serving each other there is the tops.

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I won't say it's more important than anything because there are so many things that you don't

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think that this is more important than this and this is more important. There's no rating of those

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type of things in heaven. It just is. And serving is highly quality in heaven that I try to express

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here on the planet many times. Years ago, I used to have this DVD that I put together called

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Serving Hood in Heaven. It was kind of funny because I put it on the table with other things

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that I had and one was consuming fire worship, which now is deep worship. But back in the day,

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I called it consuming fire worship. And I remember having that on the table with Serving Hood in

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Heaven and I had a stack of them on there and stack of everything else would go. That Serving

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Hood in Heaven would stay stacked. Maybe someone picked it up and put one down. That's about it.

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But in the reality of it, people don't want to know you go to heaven and serve.

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We're going to be a servant. People want to know that if you got to heaven, you were going to be

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served. That type of thing.

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It's not going to rule in rain.

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Yeah, if you're going to rule rain, you're going to want to be in charge of things. And then you

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think about the mansions. And if you think about a mansion, you got to have servants. And so all

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this stuff. And here I am in heaven. It's not that way. And I come to understand, just like Jesus

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said, if you want to be a servant in his kingdom, that is the best. That is the toms. Even when

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pastors are out there, they're called shepherds. And shepherds are what? Servants.

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Exactly.

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They're the under shepherd. We got Jesus Christ, which is the shepherd. And he serves us. And not

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in the sense of we command him or those type of things, but in the sense that he wants to see the

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best for us all the time. The Bible said he came that we may have life and life more abundantly.

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What is that? He's serving us more life. Is that cool? Is that cool?

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Oh, yes.

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When you think about it.

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Beautifully. Serving us more life.

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So here I am in heaven. And this what really got me was when I come up to somebody,

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the way we would greet somebody, here on the planet, we greet how you're doing now today and

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all this type of stuff. In heaven, the greeting was, how can I serve you? That was what came out.

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And it wasn't so much you could talk if you wanted to, but it was thought to thought.

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If we were in heaven, Phil, and you came to me, my first communication would be, how can I serve you?

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And you would say, how can I serve you? That would be the bottom line of everything. And so that

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really got me because I'm thinking, you know, no one really talks. We talk about it. It's part of

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the body that we're supposed to serve each other. But a lot of times we talk about body in the sense

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of I want my part and I want to do my part. And it's not looking at how do I serve in this part.

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You know what I mean? It's I'm going to do my part, you know, that type of thing. And here it is in

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heaven. No, you are serving each other all the time, every moment. And not only are you serving

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each other, you know how it says, we were rule of rain. I came to rule this. It's going to get some

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people. It's going to go against the grain. People are looking forward to having their crowds and

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their jewels and you know, all that type of stuff. And yet I came to understand true reigning and

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lording over people is not like you think it is. It is serving people. You're going to have places

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in heaven that you're going to be serving. And that's how you rule in your reign. It's through

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servanthood. I know that doesn't even sound right. You understand? But that's what Jesus did.

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He put on the towel so that he could wash his disciples feet and demonstrate for them

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servant leadership. And Peter reacted. So one of the scriptures when I came back to the planet,

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I was laying in the hospital room and I was thinking that came to me was found in Luke,

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the 17th chapter, the fifth through the 10th verse. And I'm going to read it to you. I'm reading it

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out of the, I think it's the new English translation, but I just want to read this to you.

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So the apostle said, I'm going to start here because this is such a key. And when I say it,

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some of you are going to grab what I'm getting ready to say right off the bat. Some people are

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going to, I'm going to have to go into it and explain it a little bit more, but some of you're

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going to grab what I should get ready to say. The apostle said to the Lord increase our faith.

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Remember that. That's what they were asking for, increasing their faith. So the Lord replied,

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if you had faith, the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry tree,

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be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea and it would obey you. Okay. Listen to that.

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Okay. Here it is. Then look what he says right after that. Now that's interesting. This is still

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part of answering that question that people don't realize. Yeah. Would anyone of you say to your

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slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, come at once and sit down

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for a meal. Won't the master instead say to him, get my dinner ready and make yourself ready

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to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink. He wouldn't thank the servant

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because he did what he was told. Will he? Listen to this. So you too, when you have done everything

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you were commanded to do, it should say, we are slaves, undeserving of special praise.

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We have only done what was our duty. How does this link in with faith and authority?

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Okay. Come on. How does this link in with faith and authority? It is a key to faith and authority

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that we don't even realize. Servanthood is such a power gaining substance in the kingdom of God

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that most people pass it by. I was recently listening to William Braniff, the guy that went

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out and did the miracles and everything like that. He said he would listen to the angel and the angel

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would tell him what to say and who to say it to and who to lay hands on. I don't know what people

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think about Braniff or not because sometimes people look at the Braniff Knights and yes, he

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got off on some things he probably shouldn't have. But in reality, that angel was serving him

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and he was serving the angel. Oh, that's good. That's good. Come on.

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Because the angel was directing him what to do. Right. Right. Okay. And a lot of times we

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don't realize it that when God is directing us to do something, lay hands on somebody,

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talk to somebody, say a certain word to somebody, we are in the servant mode at the moment.

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We are serving the other person. You know what I mean? We're serving God also by serving the

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other person. Oh, you got to grab what he said there. Very, very true.

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You know what I mean? So it got me that servanthood was huge. And when people say to me,

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sometimes I would go out and I minister and people with lives would be changed. You guys know what I

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mean? Their lives are going to be changed. Sure. If you bring Jesus, people's lives are going to

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be changed. And then they would come up to me and they would thank me or shake my hand or something

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like that. And I would think, I am not deserving of this. I just did what the master told me to do.

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Amen. That was my duty. It was my reasonable duty. Why would I get praise for my reasonable

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duty? Right. You understand what I mean? Right. And that's what really got me was here it is

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in the sense of this servanthood, it was huge. You know, I'm going on, I think, 19 years of

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ministering now. You guys are a lot longer than me in that area. You know, but one of the things

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that I try to do wherever I go is be a servant. You know, I know people love to serve me. I've

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even gotten in trouble because people want to serve me so bad and I'm doing everything to serve

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them. You understand what I mean? But the reality of it, I believe that releases the power that God

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gives me to be able to move and how he wants me to move because now I am serving instead of being

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served. I had an incident happen to me one time. I don't know if I shared it with people on this

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podcast before, but I must share it this time and it was in New York, upstate New York.

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And I was at a church and I was getting ready to minister. And I always think, guys, I don't know

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about you guys, but when you have a lot of things that happen in the kingdom of God, people start

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putting you on a pedestal. They start lifting you up and making you, and you know who you are and

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how you think and all that type of stuff. And I've never done well with trying to be on the

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pedestal. Sometimes I think maybe I should be on the pedestal because people put me on the pedestal.

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But the reality of it, I've never done well on the pedestal. And I like to be that person that just

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shakes your hand or give you a big hug or just very personal, just that type of thing. One of

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the things I had to tell the Lord recently was I like doing this because I like meeting people.

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It's not because it gets me something. It's because it adds to me just being nice and kind

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and learning about people and those types of things. I really like it. And so here I am in

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this church in upstate New York and this person named Pamela Bolton, you guys are going to meet

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her someday and some of you out there listening may know. She opens up the door for me to minister

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in upstate New York and also Vermont. I've done hundreds and hundreds of churches because of her

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in that area. And so she's sitting right next to me and she comes to me and the service has started

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and they're doing the music. And she comes to me and she says, the pastor wants you to stop

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in between your message and open it up for her to offer. And I'm thinking that just ruins the

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beat. I got a beat that I'm going on and that just ruins the beat. And if he does that, if I do that,

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it's going to be harder to get back up and do what I'm supposed to be doing because God has a plan.

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I know some of you hear me says, yeah, that sounds really good. So here I am. She tells me that. I

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look at her and say, well, I may do it. I may not do it. And I hear the Holy Spirit says, who put

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you in charge? I had moved out of the servant hood. You hear what I'm talking about? And I had moved

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into you were my servant hood. And that's what happens a lot of times with lots of people because

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we think we got it figured out the way and God is a God of life and he's going to change how we do

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things because he's going to get the most bang out of whatever's going on. You understand I'm

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talking about? And so then after I said, I looked at her, I said, Pamela, forgive me. I was wrong.

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And the service went well and a lot of people came to know Jesus. A lot of lives were changed.

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But what if I had forged my way into that instead of being the servant of God that I was called to

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be? That's my reasonable service is to do it his way. There's a scripture I want to share here

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that I think is really cool on this. It's found in Romans, the first chapter, listen to what Paul

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said, Paul, a bond servant of Christ Jesus called as an apostle. Remember he couldn't be an apostle

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unless he was a servant, set apart for the gospel God. All right. He couldn't even be set apart

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unless he was a servant. You guys gotta grab this. I think one of the examples I try to give people

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is to be that servant. Here we are reading in Romans, the 12th chapter says, we're to present

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our body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service.

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So this body is, if I'm going to utilize it the best way I can, it's going to present to you,

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it's going to be presented to Phil, it's going to be presented to anybody out there as a servant.

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And God, because of that, because some people, they come up to me and they probably have done

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you guys this too. They say, oh, you're so humble. You're so humble. I'm saying, I don't even know

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what that is. All I know is I'm serving. I'm being honest. I just know I'm serving. That's

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what I'm doing. My goal is to go anywhere and be a servant. And as I am serving, God can use me.

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I'm serving others. I'm serving Him and He can use that. And that's one of the things that really,

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really got me. So have the power of God, the faith of God. Think about it. Think about this, Sharon.

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Just think about this. Here it is. God's telling you to do something, lay hands on somebody.

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All right. You're thinking, do I have the faith to do it? It doesn't matter if you have the faith

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to do it or not, if you're a servant. Beautiful. Beautiful. All of a sudden you have the faith in

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the one that told you to do it. Yes. And because He told you to do it, then you get the results.

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Yes. Yes. Because you're serving. Yes. You know, if you think that way, you know, I think it links

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back into why the enemy of God wants to deteriorate us. Do you know what I mean by that? He wants us to

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become weaker physically because I cannot serve when my body is physically weak. If it's got things

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going on, most of the time, I'm wanting people to serve me. Because I'm the one that needs the help

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and everything like that. But I'm not saying that that shouldn't happen with some people.

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My wife is a great server. She serves me greatly. She always tells me, I'm your helpmate. That's

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what she tells me. I think we say that to each other now and then. We do. Yeah. Well, that's cool

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because she says it to me. I'm going to do it. She says, no, I'm your helpmate. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

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Which is really what? Serving. Right. If you think about it. Right. Serving each other. Yeah.

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Here's another one that just came to me. You know how we're to be subject unto each other?

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Yes. By serving each other. By serving. Exactly. Exactly. You know, and so in saying all that to

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you, you know, one of the scriptures that I also want to bring out is Romans the 8th chapter, the

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16th through the 17th verse. Now, if you've got anything you want to ask me, go ahead because

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I'm on this projectory of really pointing out this servanthood so that people out there,

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I really believe this, that somebody needs to start serving more and that physical healing that

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they want will come. Beautiful. You know? Yeah. I remember having to pray for somebody one time,

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and I think I said it on this podcast before, but I'm going to say it again, but I'm going to

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bring it from a different view. I remember a person coming up to me and saying to me,

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I need prayer for my hearing because they couldn't hear. And the person behind them got up to

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catch them if I laid hands on them. And as that person I was praying for about the hearing,

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okay, all of a sudden was, you know, getting their hearing back, the person behind them

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had a hearing problem also. And because the person got up behind them to serve, listen to what I get

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ready to say, God healed them. Wow. He healed them in such a way that I remember the guy said,

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I can hear, I can hear. And I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm praying for her right now. We'll

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talk about you later, but I'm praying for her right now. But he got healed because he got up to

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serve. Beautiful, beautiful. This is talking to somebody right now. Somebody you say, oh,

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I got to do this. I can't do this. And one of the ways that you can serve it by just praying,

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you know, intercession is the foundation for me. I don't know about anybody else out there,

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but for me, for me to move forward in the kingdom of God, I have to have prayer.

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It just, I believe in that. Now I believe that's where everybody that's going to do something in

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the kingdom of God, but that's servanthood. That's servanthood. It's such servanthood that most

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people don't get recognized for it. Oh yeah. You know, unless somebody brings it up and says,

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this person, this person, unless they get to pray out in public and they usually have beautiful

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prayers when they do pray out in public, but the reality of it is it's servanthood, you know,

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and it's your reasonable service. Oh, somebody very proud of what I just said there. It's your

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reasonable service. But let me read this scripture here to you. It's Romans 8, 16 and 17.

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The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children,

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we are heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If so, be that we suffer with him,

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that we may be also glorified. Somebody very proud of what I just said. Together. I know a lot of

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people going after glorification and what glorification. And I'm telling you the way

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to get there is to be servants. Beautiful. It's to be servants. It's fun, you guys.

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Serving others is fun. It really is. It's to joy the Lord. The Lord, see, because I know we

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think of God as almighty and all powerful, which he is, and he can do so many things and all this,

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but all that he has and he serves us. Because all blessing is, is him serving us.

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It's that simple. You know how the Bible, I say it and the Bible says it, it says we're completing

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him. You know, how are we completing him by serving each other? Beautiful.

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Beautiful. You've got certain gifts that he's given you. I have certain gifts that he's given

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me. Phil has certain gifts that he's given him. And when we come together, we serve each other

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with the gifts we have and we are complete. Beautiful. Is that cool? Is that cool?

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Yes. It's tremendous.

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I know you want me to talk about that authority sometimes, but servanthood is a foundation for

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the authority we have with Christ. Servanthood is a foundation for we're airs with Christ.

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Servanthood, literally serving each other. And if you think about it, it is to not everybody,

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but a lot of people don't want to be served, especially those that want to be in the eyes

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of others and everybody people look at them and lift them up. You know what I mean? And then

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they're very self-centered, you know, and they want to be served. And it's, you know, I think you guys

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tell me what you think about this. I think a person that is seeking for people to serve them

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are after that, which service we can give you. Wow. Think about it.

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Yeah. They don't realize the path to authority or path to greatness is through servanthood.

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If you want to be- Yeah, Jesus said, if you want to be great in the kingdom of God,

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be the servant of all. But they're trying to get people to serve them. They get what

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they only can get if they serve. Is that interesting? It just came to me. They're

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going backwards, but that would be like the enemy. He would do that. He would say, oh, you want that

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joy that you get from servanthood, then you have to have all these people serve you, you know,

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look up to you, make you. And then, and what happens to a lot of the people when that happens?

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Most of them cannot handle it. And then they fall apart and they become evil people. They

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just become evil people. You think about all these people that become famous over time, Frank,

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you know what I mean? And their lives just are tore apart because of the arrogance that they have and

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thinking they're better there. And in servanthood, we don't think we're better than,

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we think that I should be able to serve you. And God wants us to look at it as that's my child,

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you know, that you're the serve that person. So that was one of the things that I really got

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from heaven, as you could see. And if I can give anything to anybody out there when it comes to

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ministry, it would be go into it as a servant. And I don't mean as a servant just for God,

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but where you go, you know, when I get to go to these different churches, I walk into that building

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and I think into myself, now, how can I serve them? You know, and I think sometimes how can I out

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serve them? And that may be me sitting in the back of the church and talking to the people back there.

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Mm hmm. I have so much fun going into a church and they don't know I'm the speaker. Oh yeah.

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And I'm sitting in the back and I'm just communicating with them, having a great time

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with them. And then I get to go up front and speak. You know what I mean? That's a surprise.

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But to me, I get to serve at that moment. Yeah. You know what I mean? I get to be able to just

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be who God has called me to be at the moment to serve the person that I'm serving with.

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And I enjoy that so much. You know, Sharon, I found out Jesus is the only one that gets you

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into heaven. Nobody else. Yeah. You know, and once you really realize that Jesus is the only

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one that gets you in there, you can be free to be who he wants you to be. Yeah. You know, yesterday

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I was I was in Wal-Mart and I was just leaving and and there's this guy sitting there. He's got a

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veteran's hat on. You know, he joined the army and I looked, he had had an operation on his knee and

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all that. And so I'm talking to him and yes, I do know Jesus, you know, and he was so convinced

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that his works will get him into heaven. Oh, my. I've never encountered anyone like that. And he

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has a pastor that he talks to. And so I prayed, I think I'll keep praying for you and I just

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thank you that you have a pastor that keeps talking to you. But he just believes his works.

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Wow. You know, serving. Well, he's serving others is what he's doing by doing works, but

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but he doesn't know Jesus as his Lord and Savior. And I thought, Lord, please reveal yourself.

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Yes. He needs to know you. Yeah. You know, so it's all about Jesus. Absolutely.

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Phil, and I think what you just said is, it's not just serving others, it's serving God.

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We get the opportunity to serve him. You know, in that book, Deep Worship in Heaven, I talk about

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the inward praise and the outward praise. You know what I mean? And that when we're praising the Lord,

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our praise is going outward to the atmosphere, you know, but it's also going inward to where we are.

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And both are in up in eternity. Well, it's the same thing with servanthood. There's the outward

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serving of others that we can do, but at the same time, we're serving God. You know what I mean?

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That's where the authority and the power come from, by my serving the Lord. And that tree or the faith

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as a mustard seed. You know why I could have faith as a mustard seed and literally this tree

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would be uprooted and thrown into the sea is because if that's what the Lord told me to do,

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and he said, do that, then literally I can go ahead and be the servant that God wants me to do,

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to be rather, to get the results of the tree getting into the ocean.

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I think a lot of times we want to see the tree go in the ocean and then we want to serve. Serve

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God first. And I think, John the Baptist, this reminds me of John the Baptist. Here comes John

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the Baptist and Jesus said he was the greatest prophet there was. There wasn't a prophet that

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was greater than John the Baptist, but we don't see him doing like Elijah, our Elijah. We don't

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see any of those miracles. We don't see like a lot of the miracles that the prophets did.

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Oh, you know, and yet he was the greatest. Why? Because he was a servant. He did what his father

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told him to do. And we could say, well, he was announcing that Jesus was coming. Why was he

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announcing that Jesus was coming? Because his father, his heavenly father told him to do it.

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Yes, exactly. Exactly. I know this is a key for some of you out there right now that are

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searching in your ministry. What should we do or where should we go? I'm saying just go after being

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a servant. God, how can I serve? How can I serve more? Yes. You know, Sharon, you had brought up

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about me in the schools in California. I have more high schools that opened up for me this next year

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and I'm looking forward to going, you know. Glory to God. Praise God. Tell the story of how you got

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there. Yeah. What did the Lord say? Well, what happened was I want to start, my dad was leaving

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the planet going to be with Jesus. And this was in California and I would happen, I didn't happen.

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I was there to take care of him by the grace of God. And so he was in one room and I was in another

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room. And I thought I heard him call me or say something. So I was running down a hallway. And

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as I was running down the hallway to be there, you know, I heard the Lord say this in an audible voice,

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I want California. I remember stopping in that hallway, because it was a pretty long hallway,

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stopping in that hallway, looking up, putting my hands out like, you know, like you would praise

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the Lord or something like that and saying, how can I help? That's what I said. How can I help?

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And there was no answer at the time. There was nothing that literally came to me and said,

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I want you to do this. I want you to do that. I kind of just threw myself and said, how can I

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help? Almost like you would say, I just said, I'm the servant Lord. Tell me what you want me to do.

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And sometimes I want to use this as an example, people that could sing so great,

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they have a beautiful voice. And when God tells them to do something, the first thing they have

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an answer for, oh, you must want to use my voice. You hear what I'm just saying? Okay. Or someone

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has this, oh, you must want to do this. Instead of going to them and saying, how can I help?

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Yes. You know, and he didn't come to me and say, I want you to do this. I want you to do that.

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I'm doing this. He just says, I want California. And when he said, I want California, all I could

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answer was, how can I help? Yes. You know, and I can't tell you, I could pat myself on the back

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and say, oh, that's a great way to answer God. It just came out. Yes. That was Holy Spirit operating

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in your spirit. Yeah. It just came out, you know? And when it came out, I was satisfied and I felt

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like he was satisfied. Not knowing the next weekend, I was going somewhere else in California to

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minister. I'm down there, this guy named Ralph Hernandez and Kathleen Hernandez want to meet me.

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And because of that servant hood attitude, I said, okay, you know, that's why I'm here for,

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why am I here? I'm here to serve. If these people want me to do something, I need to find out what

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it is. So I meet with them and they said, I remember them asking me, do you think you could

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come into school and talk to the kids? That's how they asked me. Like, I'm thinking, why wouldn't I

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want to go into this school and talk to the kids? Public schools, if you please.

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Public schools, you're right. No Pomo High School, you know, in California. It was the first school

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I went into. And he was like, what you think about coming into the schools? And I'm thinking,

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why wouldn't I? Okay. I just got this audible voice from God that said, you know, that he went to

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California. I'm in California and all of a sudden this door opens up and all I said was, how can I

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help? How can I serve you? That's really what, how can I serve you Lord? That's really what's coming

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out of my mouth. And here I go and this door opens and then I get to go to the Pomo High School and

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they had me in an auditorium and the auditorium is packed with kids because kids want to hear about

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this man that died. Okay. I didn't know how we were going to do this at the time. And so we show the

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video and the Lord said, I just want you to answer questions. Okay. I love it. People say, well,

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what do you mean answer questions? They ask questions. I don't know what the questions

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are going to be. I don't have all the answers to everything in the universe. I don't know

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all this stuff, but you know what God did? Well, it's the tree. It's the tree.

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It's about taking the tree and saying, move into the ocean. It's the tree. The reason I say this

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is because all I did was do what he said. And the next thing I know, I'm up there and he's

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giving me the answers to answer these kids. I'm just a servant. I'm serving the kids by

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answering the questions. I'm serving God by being there and being used in that way.

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And I just remember, and that just led to the next year I went there. Then I went to two more

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schools. Then I went to a junior high that had over 300 kids show up. And then I went to 300 kids,

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I should say 300 kids, two services. So it was a 300 kids, one service. It was at lunchtime,

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300 kids, one service and then 300 kids, another service. Okay. And then I got to go to what they

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call their boot camp where all their kids that are in trouble in that area. And they go to the

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boot camp. I got the minister to the men and the women there because they have women in there,

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the soldier type of thing. I've done that a number of years. And so I go back and I do it. And now

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we, in one of the schools I'm in, we have to go into the gym because it gets packed out in the gym.

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Wow. You know, one side of the bleachers, we haven't hit the other side yet, but we've got

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one side of the bleachers, you know, and all of it's volunteer. Most people don't realize.

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It's not me going in there and it's an assembly and they're asking all the kids to show up.

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This is if you want to come. And because of that, then we get to do a couple of things. Number one,

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we get to ask people to know Jesus Christ as Lord Savior. So we get all these hands of people

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coming to know Jesus. Second that we get to do is that we get to hand out Bibles because I have

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people that donate Bibles and we get to hand out all these Bibles. And sometimes some of these kids,

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this is their first Bible ever. Their first Bible ever. And then here we go again, you know,

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I get to hand out the book in heaven and we give them the book if they want it, you know,

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none of this is forced on them, but they take it. Okay. Now here is a caveat that no one knows that

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I get to do at these schools that I'm going to share with you. Not only do I get to meet

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them, not only do I get to minister to the kids, but I get to go to the principals and pray for

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them. Oh, glory to God. I go in their offices, we shut the door and I pray for them. I get to

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minister to the teachers. So there's more that's going on and it's me talking to the kids. I get

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to serve, you guys get this? I get to serve the school there. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yes. I get

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to serve the school there. And so this next year I get to go back and I'm going into the same

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schools that I went in and then I get three new schools and I'm thinking, God, you're good. And

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that's opened up for me to do Florida. And I've done Illinois and West Virginia and some other

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schools around, but I'm just saying in California, I just remember he's saying to me, I want

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to go to California and all I could do is say, how can I help? And I've done, I mean, I can't

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tell you, there's so much, you know, and what are the places I love to go to as a school

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right outside of Sacramento? Really it's in Sacramento area, which is the capital of

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California, you know? And here are these kids going to this school and I get to minister to

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those kids and share. And I've done a number of schools in that area and it all comes down to

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how can I help? How can I serve you Lord? How can I serve you Lord? So to go back to all that we

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talked about in heaven, I just feel like I want to wrap it up here in this area. In heaven, when we

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come and we meet each other, we just don't say, hey, how you doing going on that stuff? We first,

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everybody, even your relatives say, when you get there, you're going to say, how can I serve you?

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And they're going to say to you, how can I serve you? And it's going to be the ultimate language

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of love. That is so beautiful. It's going to be serving each other. Beautiful. You know? Amen.

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So Sharon and Phil, that's, you know, getting close to our time here and. Well, I just want to

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make a couple of comments. Yeah, go ahead. So the scripture that you brought in, well, actually all

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of them that use this word servant, the first scripture that you read from a different

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translation, use the word slave. Yeah. Yeah. And the word in Greek there is doulos, which,

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which literally means slave. Okay. Paul talks about himself as being a slave of the Lord.

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Okay. Where he says, Paul called to be an apostle separated unto God. But he first, he says, first

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thing he says, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ and this word doulos, the reason I'm bringing it up

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is that it not only means slave, but the word comes from a word that means to bind. Yes. Or to tie,

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or to fasten. Yeah. Okay. To fashion with chains and to bind, to put under obligation, duty. Okay.

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Duty. So it's our duty. It's our duty. But what I'm reminded of is that in the Old Testament,

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in Exodus chapter 21, it talks about if a Hebrew person sells himself into slavery or is sold into

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slavery, he can only serve for six years. And then he goes out in the seventh year free. But if his

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master has given him a wife and he has children, he gets to go out free, but they stay slaves.

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Yeah. That's right. So he has a choice if he wants to stay with his wife and children,

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because he loves them. And if he loves his master, he can say, I don't want to go out free.

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I'm going to serve the rest of my life. Yeah. And the idea of serving, what I was seeing is

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that we think about bondage as being a negative thing. But when we are bound to the Lord, we're

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bound to him with cords of love. And it's the love slave that we're talking about in Exodus 21.

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It's the love slave. He says, okay, I'm going to serve you the rest of my life. I'm going to put

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my ear up to the door. And he uses an all, puts a hole in the ear that shows this is my master.

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We used to sing that song. Yeah. Put my ear up to the door. I don't want to leave here anymore.

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Make me a love slave to Jesus, my Lord. Put my ear into the door. I don't want to leave here

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anymore. Make me a love slave forever to my Lord. Yeah. And so, so the idea of being bound by love,

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and I think that's really what you're seeing in heaven is you're not serving just because it's

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the thing that we do. You're serving because you are living in this place of love that is all about

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the love of God flowing through you, flowing into you. And you're, there's nothing outside of love,

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right? On the planet here, we have negative issues that cause us to get our backup about serving.

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But the environment of love that binds, we're bound by his love.

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Yeah. That's good. You know, it's something you said that because I had the meanings here

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of bond servant. Okay. And I remember reading this years ago on that scripture that Romans 1, 1,

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which it says slave, and then it also says bond servant. And it says the most accurate translation

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is bond servant, sometimes found in the American standard versions, okay, as slave. And then it

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says, in that it is often indicate one who sells himself into slavery to another. Yes. And I thought

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about that, you know, we, if we want to have the authority, listen to what I'm saying. If we want

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to have that authority and that faith that God wants us to have, we have to sell ourselves into

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slavery to him. Beautiful. Beautiful. And you're right. It's love. Do you understand what I mean?

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Yes. You know, and I think about, you know, that scripture says that his burns are light.

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My yoke is easy and my yoke is light. My yoke is easy and my, you know,

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and I remember that scripture and I never knew that that's what I desired.

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Until after I got to heaven and then I experienced, oh, this is what you really mean by serving you.

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Yeah. Yeah. And it is love. Yes. It is love. Yes. And that's why when we're married to each other

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and we love each other, it's so easy to serve each other. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But we're married to Jesus

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too. We're married to Jesus. He gave his all for us. We should, we should only want to give our all

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for him. Yes. Amen. One more scripture that came to mind and you guys know it's found in Philippians

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second chapter, starting at the fifth verse. I don't know if Phil, you could find it before me.

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We'll see. This is King James. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself

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of no reputation and took upon him the form of the servant and was made in the likeness of man.

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Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient onto death,

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even the death of the cross. Or for God also hath highly exalted him and gave him a name,

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which is above every name that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven

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and things in earth and things under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus

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Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the father. Amen. Amen. There's that authority again. Yeah.

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Beautiful. Because he humbled himself to become a servant. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Sharon, that's,

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that's what I wanted to talk about this session, you know, in the sense of servanthood,

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because I just want that to get out there. And if anybody is ministry, please start putting

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yourself as a servant. Start doing it the way God wants you to do it with the people that God

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wants. And remember, there's certain people just honor people in such a way that you're serving

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them. Doesn't mean you always agree with them. Doesn't mean you even like some of the things

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they're doing. But if you're serving them, you know, it's almost like when he said, there's

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someone asked you to take a cloak, a mile, take it two miles. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

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He knows what he's doing. Yes. Would you pray for us to have that grace to serve?

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Well, father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you right now. I thank you for opening up our eyes to

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be able to see the importance of, um, first of all, coming to you. You know, I, I said something to

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you the other day about my body. And I said, Lord, you know, I give you my body, but it's not just

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giving you my body in the sense of just a physical, but also give me my body in the sense of serving

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to be able to use it to serve others, Lord. So I pray that others out there as they are listening

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to this would say, I give you my body, not only just in the physical aspect of eating healthy and

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doing, taking care of it, but also in the sense of serving others, that they would really look at

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using their body in that form of serving other people on this planet and serving you, Lord,

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in both areas. I thank you father right now. There's some people today were just, they were

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freed up things just all of a sudden changed in them. And they've been praying, they've been

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asking and they've been looking and you opened up their purpose father, you know, as my pastor said,

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where there's a purpose, there's a need. And so there must be a need for you, them to have the

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purpose that they have. So father, in the name of Jesus, I just pray that they use the purpose that

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they have right now to serve others. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.

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Amen.

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