TCA-YWAM Austin     October 1, 2017 Topic: Building a Culture of Honor Series– The Selfish King & The Noble King – Which one do YOU want to be like? (Compiled by Jon Dorris) (Permission granted for anyone to use freely)   Announcements           -Jonathan Maas next week – Tanya and I in DC   Intro   -May be the MOST important message for you to hear (including me).   -ETERNITY vs this brief life.   -PRAY, God give us His WISDOM and His HEART to live this LIFE.   -The choices we make in this life sets our LIFE for ALL OF ETERNITY.   Q-Is salvation FREE or do we WORK FOR IT? Yes and Yes           -This confused me for the first few years of my walk with Jesus           -I began to see 2 GOSPELS   -INTRO 2 (phases) GOSPELS by my EX.           -35 yrs ago just wanted NO HELL                    -told God I wanted to drink beer till 60 then come and serve Him                    -8 months later gave Him my WHOLE HEART and received His HEART                              -This began my Sacred Romance with King Jesus                              -I have persevered on this Kingdom journey ever since.                              -I was now a true disciple of Christ and His Bride in the making (by HS)           1. Gospel of Salvation by Grace           2. Gospel of the Kingdom   -Intro WHITE BOARD timeline   -INTRO FINAL QUEST           -Rick’s 1995 dream of HEAVEN (highest real vision)           -Like John did and wrote Revelation           -Testimony of a man IN HEAVEN who MISSED OUT -Read Pg 88-91 FINAL QUEST       -Phase 1 Gospel of Grace           -John 3:16-18 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (= HELL)             -Eph 2:8-9 (10 is Kingdom)           8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.  Next vs shifts into Kingdom: (2:10) 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.   -Phase 2 Gospel of the Kingdom           -God values FAITH rooted in LOVE in everything we do.           -Matthew 8:5-13 5 And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him, 6 and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.” 7 Jesus *said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 But the centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.9 For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” 10 Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, “Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel. 11 I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed that very moment.   These are “sons of the kingdom” (not lost people destined for hell)       D – “Outer darkness” –        -No glorified Body (JC Mt of Transfiguration)        -Bride has GLORIOUS & SUPERNATURAL GLORIFIED BODY               for the 1000 year Reign with Christ        -Time out – not hell        -Weeping and gnashing teeth because THEN MISSED OUT        -Mercy after 1000 yrs        -Admitted into Father’s Kingdom of God (after 1000 yrs)   Matthew 7:21-24 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. -The ISSUE: - do you have a growing heart-to-heart relationship with God as your Lord, by hearing His words AND ACTING ON THEM? -Or have you chosen OUTER DARKNESS or even HELL?   -Early in my 35 years:        -Henry Blackabee: “Ask God how he is moving and how He wants me to join him in his work, and JUST DO IT”! √ -I have tried to live this way for 34 years.   -I made a lot of mistakes but quickly asked forgiveness and repented = under the Blood of Jesus & no Judgment Seat for those.   -Listen to 1 last EX.        -Luke 19:12-26 12 So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return. 13 And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’ 14 But (most of) his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ 15 When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done. 16 The first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’ 17 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’ 18 The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, has made five minas.’ 19 And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief; 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 He *said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’24 Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25 And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’ 26 I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.   Q-How are you using the talents, giftings, and callings God gave you?   The Selfish King & The Noble King – Which one do YOU want to be like?   King Saul        -People reject God as King and want man to be king        -So He gave them Saul               (We as a nation get the leaders we deserve)        -Samuel anoints him as King -Great appearance and abilities          -But no HEART Lordship Devotion to God        -Did his own desires          -Saul leads Israel to initial victories over:               -Philistines               -other Ites        -But very quickly starts disobeying God   1 Samuel 13:13-14 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”   1 Samuel 15:26  But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”   -Our role now:           -We must grow in our heart to heart relationship with God                    -By spending time with Him regularly                    -By daily trusting in FAITH for the Holy Spirit to lead us into Truth                    -By obeying the leading of the Holy Spirit                    -By repenting quickly when Holy Spirit reveals we missed Him                    -Persevering in these things all the way to end of our life.   King David           -Youngest and least in his family           = they made him a shepherd who stays out with the flock           -He spent a lot of time with God           -He HONORED God           -He gave God his whole HEART (Lordship)           -He followed the Holy Spirit’s leading in life.           -He grew strong in FAITH & LOVE for God.           -He trusted in and relied on God’s power and Presence                    -He killed a bear                    -He killed a lion                    -Then he killed Goliath          ALL BY TRUSTING God to live through him                              (Galatians 2:20)           -Samuel anointed Him King over Israel after God rejected Saul.           -His FAITH in God enabled him to consistently defeat Israel’s enemies           -God called David a MAN after MY OWN (GOD’S) HEART who will do ALL MY WILL. Acts 13:22 22 After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’   Q – But I thought David made a lot of mistakes?           -He did                    -Bathsheba and killing Uriah (her husband)                    -Another time He disobeyed God and numbered the Israelites                              =20,000 ? Israelites died. -BUT – he quickly repented in true Godly sorrow -He kept his HEART always set on FIATH-FILLED LOVE for God.   Q – So which one do you want to be like? King Saul or King David?   Q – Do you want to just stay out of hell or go all the way with God?   Q – Do you want to Reign with Jesus for 1000 years with a glorious supernatural body,           or do you want to sit in time out in outer darkness for 1000 years watching?   Lets take 60 seconds, close your eyes and answer this question to God           -Go all the way with Him or not?   Alter Call 1. If you have already accepted free gift of Jesus’ salvation OR you want to, then stand up.           (I lead them all in a prayer of salvation) 2. If you have either already given your whole heart to God as Lord or want to then stay standing. If you do not want to go all the way with God, then please sit down.           (I lead them in a prayer for WHOLE HEART Bride of Christ prayer)   Our Goal: Rev. 19:7-9  7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His [a]bride has made herself ready.” 8 It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the [b]saints. 9 Then he *said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” And he *said to me, “These are true words of God.”