WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.320 So you think about honor like it's really hard to be honoring somebody and get offended by that person 2 00:00:05.560 --> 00:00:11.440 Right, because you're seeing their value despite so you're if your heart and your focus is this person is love the value by God 3 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:16.080 And they can see the violist thing and I just be like okay God loves you 4 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:21.760 You know and so I love you and that anchors our our attitude and it anchors our relationships with people 5 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.440 We become unoffendable imagining unoffendable 6 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:34.880 Welcome to the city light church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us 7 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:42.320 If you want to connect with city light church feel free to visit us at citylight nyc.com that city light 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.640 NYC.com 9 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:51.760 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds 10 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.720 As you listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by God 11 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.400 That you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you 12 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:11.920 Well, I want all of you to put your hands together from my brother and my friend our guest minister for the days actually one of our own 13 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.480 His name is Brian Anderson 14 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:24.720 You 15 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:27.520 The sting testing who we are live 16 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:30.480 Hello second service 17 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.920 I'd like to just start by opening in prayer for what's going on in the world right now in Iran 18 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:40.800 Uh, if you just bag your heads with me lord Jesus 19 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:43.200 We ask for your 20 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:49.760 Peace in the middle east lord and I ran Israel and United States as the unit us has gotten involved 21 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.160 Father, we ask for your wisdom and your grace to be upon our leaders 22 00:01:54.480 --> 00:02:00.080 President Trump and all the military leaders father that you would give them wisdom in this season like never before 23 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:07.600 And father, we pray that the church would be a source of hope in this time lord Jesus as as our neighbors and friends 24 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:10.560 Look for answers and and sense fear 25 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:18.240 Father, we'd be a voice of hope and a voice of peace in the midst of turmoil in the name of Jesus we pray 26 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:20.560 and then 27 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:24.080 Well, it's good to be speaking here again. I've got an exciting message 28 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:29.360 Although you know on the on the face of it. It's one of these topics that you know 29 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:33.280 I don't think many of us understand. I know I certainly didn't understand this this topic 30 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Whenever I thought about the the power of whenever I thought about honor 31 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:45.200 I thought about maybe like you know nights at the round table or like a night you know in shining arm or getting like knighted or 32 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:50.720 Or something like that, but I'm speaking today about honor and how the Bible views 33 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.400 Honor and honors really is really based in 34 00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:58.400 God's value for each human and 35 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:03.200 He's expressed that value by sending his own son and shedding his blood 36 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:07.360 To set us free from sin and so we see that 37 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.320 From the father's very heart 38 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:15.920 He values us is so highly so highly that he would see he would send his own son to die for us 39 00:03:16.320 --> 00:03:24.160 And so the blood of Jesus gives us a sense of the value of humanity to God and and the Bible teaches us that we 40 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:33.120 Also should value our fellow man and we should value them so highly that they sense and experience a little God through our lives 41 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:36.720 And so we get to participate and cooperate in the love of God 42 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.320 To people and it's a pretty awesome thing 43 00:03:40.320 --> 00:03:46.560 I remember when I first came to city light. I was a backsliding Christian for 13 years and I had 44 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.320 I was I felt so so dissonance from the Lord was something was drawing and calling me to 45 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:57.840 To come and get some spirituality in my life and I remember walking into a service 46 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:05.200 In the East Village sitting down in the back back back of that church and experiencing the love of God 47 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:13.040 It woke me out of a deep sleep spiritually woke me up to the fact that I had a father in heaven who loved me 48 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.520 who had a purpose and a calling for my life and 49 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:21.520 So much was spoken in in experiencing God's love that I can't even today even put into words 50 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.920 I just knew he loved me and I knew I was forgiven and I knew he had a plan on a purpose for my life 51 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:30.640 And so sitting in the back of that church my life was forever changed in this church 52 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:36.480 And then people began in this church to to disciple me and mentor me and encourage me in my faith 53 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:42.800 And in my connection to this church has has has has let me stand here today a total miracle 54 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:48.320 I shouldn't be alive. I should have had I should have overdosed. I should have I should have been in depression 55 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.680 You know, I remember going to a doctor one time and getting depression medication 56 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.840 To try to feel to try to not feel my pain and it didn't work 57 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:03.920 And so then I tried drugs and alcohol for years and and that only numbed it because every time I get sober 58 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.400 The the reality of the world would come crashing in again, and then I'd have to kind of go die back in 59 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:16.480 I'd been through two divorces. I was estranged from my son and my life was a total mess until Jesus Christ 60 00:05:17.200 --> 00:05:19.200 started putting it back together and 61 00:05:20.880 --> 00:05:25.280 And you all are a part of that testimony and and at the part of the testimony of 62 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:30.080 Me coming to the Lord and in a few months later my then-girlfriend now wife coming to the Lord 63 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:39.440 How do you say ha? You got a a beautiful five-month-old baby a three-year-old downstairs a 12-year-old who's not with us this weekend 64 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:46.080 And they all love the Lord and it's just been a miracle to see what the Lord has done in our family 65 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:53.520 So I want to thank and bless and honor this church the the leaders of this church pastor bow pastor bow 66 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:58.640 For their steady hand their love their service 67 00:05:59.760 --> 00:06:05.360 Saying the tough things that we don't want to hear sometimes watching over us watching over our growth and development and 68 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.440 Like pastor most said, I'm homegrown in this church 69 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.280 So if you don't like the product. It's you talk to the talk to management 70 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:22.080 But praise praise God you know it's you know 71 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:26.160 It's all I can do you know if I'm asked to do something in this church my attitude is 72 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.880 Yes, every single time. I don't care what it is that you asked me to do 73 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.800 You know, I'm gonna say yes every single I owe such a debt of gratitude to this church 74 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.160 Praise God 75 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:42.000 All right, so let's get into it. What it what is honor? 76 00:06:42.640 --> 00:06:45.600 Honor is to value or esteem to treat with reverence 77 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:50.000 Deference respect because of the intrinsic value 78 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:52.800 In scripture it sometimes is 79 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:54.400 used 80 00:06:54.400 --> 00:06:57.440 To to to mean to listen to or to pay attention to 81 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:05.280 Honors first a condition of the heart, but then it's it's demonstrated by our actions and our words 82 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.800 Sometimes in scripture it even means to give money to 83 00:07:09.760 --> 00:07:13.120 So so who does God call us to honor? 84 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.600 I'm gonna go to first Peter 217 85 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:25.280 Honor all people 86 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:28.080 Okay, that's a pretty straightforward one 87 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.680 You know, I started wrestling with a concept of honor when I had a a business partnership that went south and 88 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:43.200 I reached an in-pass where I thought the the new business I'd left a big law firm with a very stable salary 89 00:07:43.520 --> 00:07:50.000 I was as it was launching out into a new entrepreneurial venture and suddenly what seemed like this great lucrative thing 90 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:54.640 was turning belly up and I found myself in all kinds of turmoil 91 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.240 Terminal emotionally. I was about a year into my new walk with the Lord 92 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:05.520 Still pretty young in my faith and so my first my first instinct was to defend be defensive and to start 93 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:12.320 Trying to protect myself so I threatened and I lashed out and I tried all these different things and nothing was working 94 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:16.880 The partnership wasn't going the way I I I hoped it would and 95 00:08:18.320 --> 00:08:23.520 I can't get into details because the Lord's taught me to honor the people that I got into if I would 96 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:32.000 But I did I went to the Lord and and I I felt the Lord say honor people and trust me 97 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.000 and 98 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:39.600 That didn't seem like a good solution because I didn't see a path forward with it with the partnership 99 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.960 So I and then I also didn't know what it meant to honor people 100 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.240 So I said okay Lord. What does it mean to honor people? I knew one scripture 101 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.200 one scripture about 102 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.640 You know honoring your mother and your father and that was the only honor scripture I knew 103 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:55.520 But I knew it came with a promise that it would go well with you in the land 104 00:08:56.400 --> 00:08:58.400 And then you'll live a long life 105 00:08:58.800 --> 00:09:02.240 I said okay, so that sounds good honor seems to have 106 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.560 favor and grace attached to it 107 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:08.720 Let me try it. So I started by just changing my words. I stopped 108 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.200 speaking insult and 109 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:15.600 criticism and gossip about these people and started speaking 110 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:21.200 Grace in fact as I started speaking my heart started changing and I started wrecking 111 00:09:21.280 --> 00:09:25.200 I started realizing that actually was was experiencing love for the very people 112 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:31.920 I was in a fight with and that I was having a disagreement with and then the Lord started to show me that he had put them in my life 113 00:09:31.920 --> 00:09:36.640 To open a door for me and just like a mother and father goes before you and to make a way for you 114 00:09:36.880 --> 00:09:40.160 They were gonna make a way for me into the business world that I had no inroads to 115 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.120 You know New York is a predominantly 116 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:49.120 Jewish real estate world and I'm not Jewish and I'm an outsider and these guys were giving me an intro to all of these 117 00:09:49.520 --> 00:09:51.520 relationships inside of that community and 118 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.240 My perspective completely changed and I started to speak highly of them 119 00:09:56.560 --> 00:10:00.880 Especially when they weren't around. It started talking to people about how they made away from me 120 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:05.520 They opened doors for me and I began to bless them with my words and I noticed a shift 121 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:11.600 Completely in in in in in my relationship with them. It was spiritual because there was nothing 122 00:10:12.400 --> 00:10:14.960 There was nothing new new no new facts had emerged 123 00:10:15.280 --> 00:10:20.800 But suddenly we were just starting to get along and suddenly I was experiencing favor and grace 124 00:10:20.800 --> 00:10:25.840 It went a place where it was just strife and bitterness and I felt twisted up inside and angry all the time 125 00:10:26.400 --> 00:10:31.280 And so I started I started realizing and having a revelation of the power of honor 126 00:10:31.760 --> 00:10:36.720 I said where else is this in the scriptures? Is there something besides the parent verse that 127 00:10:37.760 --> 00:10:39.760 Talks to us about honor and then 128 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:42.480 Sure enough. There's a whole bunch of scriptures 129 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.320 I'm not I'm gonna try not to cover as many as I try to get to in the first service because that was a lot 130 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.800 But I'm gonna try to pick out the the key ones. I'm still learning Pastor Moe 131 00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:53.200 So got the training wheels on still 132 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:56.640 Let's go to 133 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.600 Matthew 13 134 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:00.800 54 135 00:11:00.800 --> 00:11:02.800 I think this lays out the principal pretty well 136 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:09.760 When he'd come to his own country he taught them in their synagogue so they were astonished and said 137 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.800 Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 138 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:20.320 Is this not the carpenter son is not his mother called Mary and his brother James Joseph Simon and Judas 139 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:25.680 And his sisters are they not all here with us where then did this man get all these things 140 00:11:26.640 --> 00:11:29.120 So they were offended at him. I just want to stop here for a second 141 00:11:29.520 --> 00:11:32.880 He says they they recognized the way that he had wisdom and mighty works 142 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:36.160 But they were offended with him 143 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.440 It's it's a weird verse he goes on to say the weird people I should say because they 144 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.240 They didn't embrace the gift on his life. They rejected the gift on his life 145 00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:50.640 They rejected the minister he was bringing to them because they he was common to them 146 00:11:50.640 --> 00:11:54.480 He was known to them. They knew his upbringing. They knew where he came from they knew his pedigree 147 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:56.000 Maybe he didn't go to Harvard 148 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.480 Maybe he wasn't from the upper crust 149 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.120 Maybe people who do the things that he did or supposed to come from a different walk of life 150 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:11.200 Well for whatever reason they dishonored him and Jesus said to them a prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house 151 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.720 next verse 152 00:12:15.280 --> 00:12:18.640 Now he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief 153 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.120 So we see we see 154 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:24.000 Jesus speaking about honor and we see that Jesus says a 155 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:26.640 Prophet is not with honor except in his own house 156 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.560 So he's he's tying 157 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.920 They're unbelief to dishonor and the implication is had they honored him 158 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:36.560 They would have seen many mighty works 159 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.440 Their dishonor stopped what god wanted to do their dishonors 160 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:43.600 broke 161 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:47.280 broke the flow of the spirit into their lives and it makes me ask the question 162 00:12:47.280 --> 00:12:52.400 How often do we do that right? I mean if Jesus Christ experienced that and they saw his mighty works 163 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:56.880 But still kept him at an arm distance because it didn't match what they were expecting to see 164 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:04.080 How often do we block the favor and the grace that god wants to bring into our lives because we dishonor the person that through whom it's supposed to come 165 00:13:04.560 --> 00:13:09.200 We dishonor the the messenger and we can't we discount their value 166 00:13:09.760 --> 00:13:12.320 The Lord doesn't discount anyone's value in fact 167 00:13:12.560 --> 00:13:16.400 He shed his blood for all humanity and so we're supposed to honor all people and if we would 168 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:22.320 Posture our hearts with honor we could receive from anybody and god could use anybody in the body of Christ 169 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:27.760 Even unbelievers in the business sense like I was speaking about a moment ago to open doors for us 170 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:35.040 If we would be willing to honor and to bless instead of to hold on to grudges to hold on to offense or to treat his common 171 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:39.040 Let's look at 172 00:13:41.280 --> 00:13:48.080 Let's look at what what does a culture say about honor? You know, we we have such a we have such a skewed view of honor 173 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:54.320 Honors not about us. It's about blessing others. It's about valuing others our culture uses of honor like this 174 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.480 It says you need to defend her honor, right? You got to get violent 175 00:13:59.280 --> 00:14:03.120 If our culture says you disrespected me. I need to defend my honor 176 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.920 So I've got to get violent to 177 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:09.040 Make you respect me 178 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:11.520 Honor is not something that you can 179 00:14:11.520 --> 00:14:14.000 Demand it's something that you're supposed to give 180 00:14:14.640 --> 00:14:16.960 So honor is is is outward focused 181 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:22.240 Jesus demonstrated the greatest honor we could ever receive by shedding his own blood for us 182 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:26.960 And so he left us as an example of how we are to honor all people 183 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:32.160 Honor doesn't look to the politics. It doesn't look to the sin in someone's life. It doesn't look to 184 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:36.160 Their status their beauty their intellect their race 185 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:41.120 It just looks at the fact that they are a human being with tremendous value to god 186 00:14:41.520 --> 00:14:44.240 Go to go to a psalm 8 if you would 187 00:14:52.400 --> 00:14:54.400 Psalm chapter 8 188 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.120 So let's flip forward to the 189 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:10.560 I don't have the verse here, but you crown him with glory and honor. So this is talking about humanity and 190 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:13.520 and 191 00:15:13.520 --> 00:15:15.520 The psalmist is writing and saying 192 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:20.400 What is man that you are mindful of him? You made him a little lower than the angels you crown him with glory and honor 193 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:26.000 So the lord created us with honor. He created us with value. We were supposed to be the object of his affection 194 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.520 Sin separated us from that and caused a chasm between us 195 00:15:30.160 --> 00:15:32.720 But he never stopped loving and cherishing us. He never stopped 196 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.040 valuing us and so our there it is 197 00:15:37.520 --> 00:15:40.880 You have crowned him with glory. You made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor 198 00:15:41.760 --> 00:15:43.760 Psalm 8.5 199 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:48.880 So our job is Christians is to reflect Jesus and 200 00:15:49.680 --> 00:15:52.960 He showed it paid the ultimate price by shedding his blood for us 201 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:58.000 And we're supposed to reflect that same honor. So when we're talking to people when we're ministering to people 202 00:15:58.640 --> 00:16:00.160 um 203 00:16:00.160 --> 00:16:06.240 Boy the spirit of God shows up when when you honor them when you start to to value them and and see them as as 204 00:16:06.400 --> 00:16:11.040 Special to God that he shed his blood for that person that's in front of you. It doesn't matter 205 00:16:11.920 --> 00:16:13.920 What they're protesting it doesn't matter 206 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:20.400 You know what kind of sin they're in it doesn't matter how they've treated you when you when you just when you when you return 207 00:16:20.800 --> 00:16:26.560 Good for evil when you return honor for dishonor when someone insults you and you honor them instead and you bless them 208 00:16:26.560 --> 00:16:29.520 And you love them and you say you have you have value 209 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:36.400 The spirit of God shows up because he's trying to turn that per he's he's trying to reach that person 210 00:16:36.400 --> 00:16:41.520 He wants them to experience his love and so the Lord is turning us into ministers of reconciliation 211 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.520 That see people with the value of Jesus and see people 212 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:53.920 With the through the eyes of the blood of Jesus instead of the way we tend to look at people which is their failings their shortcomings 213 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:55.920 um 214 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:02.080 The Bible teaches us to honor many different things. It's teaches us to honor family and marriage 215 00:17:03.520 --> 00:17:05.520 To the things that society 216 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:07.920 dishonors the most 217 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.960 um and there's promises that come with it um 218 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.000 There's a promise with your if of honoring your parents 219 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.560 I mean, notice how it doesn't say honor your good good parents 220 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.200 Just says parents 221 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.840 Why is that like why would God want us to honor 222 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:24.400 people who don't deserve honor? 223 00:17:25.040 --> 00:17:30.240 I mean, it's just a reflection of his heart right he it's the Bible says that while we are still sinners Christ died for us 224 00:17:31.040 --> 00:17:37.120 And so he it's the honor is never about you deserve my respect. It's I'm giving it to you even though you don't 225 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.440 Because Jesus gave me his life even when I didn't deserve it 226 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:50.000 So we're just reflecting what we received so honor is honor is a honors honor something you do want to wrestle with because 227 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:52.240 You you need to get uh 228 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.120 dishonor out of your life. You need to get criticism out of your life 229 00:17:55.120 --> 00:18:01.040 You need to deal with offense in your life if you're going to let the love of Jesus flow through you to you and through you 230 00:18:01.600 --> 00:18:04.240 and a lot of times uh we uh 231 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.600 We have a hard time with honor because we have a hard time with receiving God's love 232 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:13.200 And we're receiving his grace and recognizing that we are sinners saved by grace 233 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.800 And it's because of the grace at honor on our lives that we can give that freely away 234 00:18:17.040 --> 00:18:21.200 We're self-critical. We're unforgiving our of our own failings and so we're critical of others 235 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:27.040 And we think somehow by controlling and and demanding that we're going to get our way and the Lord is actually 236 00:18:27.520 --> 00:18:32.320 calling us to uh honor and trust and let go and watch what he does 237 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.040 So he made it really easy like imagine if he had said 238 00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:41.360 honor this category of person not don't honor this category 239 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:46.640 But that sometimes once in a while do and you'd be kind of like running this like matrix 240 00:18:47.360 --> 00:18:51.280 Okay, you know and everybody would get it wrong right he just said i'm gonna make it easy 241 00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:53.440 honor everyone and leave the details to me 242 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:58.240 I'm gonna flow through you and bring grace and favor into the situations where you minister and honor 243 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:04.080 And so wow that's like that make that takes the burden off doesn't it all I have to do is love people and honor people 244 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:07.440 And then the Holy Spirit shows up and then he super charges my 245 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.160 Natural abilities with his grace and his favor so that I can minister to people 246 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:16.480 So that's all I've got to do. I got to get my heart aligned with God's heart for people 247 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:22.320 If I want to see change in my world if I want to see change in my family change in my neighborhood change in my community change in my business 248 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.440 I need to honor the person on that phone call 249 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000 That is driving me crazy 250 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:32.240 That's offending I need to honor that person at work who's managing me the wrong way 251 00:19:32.320 --> 00:19:37.280 I need to honor that person who's on the other side of the political aisle for me and and and 252 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:42.560 Begin to reflect that with my words and with my actions and then just watch what the Holy Spirit does 253 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:47.200 It's really exciting guys once you get this it's like this is something that's more caught than taught 254 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.040 I think you have to get you sort of have to just get a aha moment with it 255 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:55.600 I hope some of you get it right now. Just Lord. I want to just I want to simplify 256 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.880 My treatment of people to honor and love 257 00:19:59.760 --> 00:20:04.080 Okay, and we sometimes a lot of times in the church we talk about forgiveness being unconditional 258 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:11.120 But then when it comes to things like honor where we pick and choose and there's a reason why the scripture gives us different 259 00:20:11.600 --> 00:20:15.840 Measures because it shows us where we're blocking the Lord where we're blocking the Holy Spirit 260 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:19.760 Like you may kind of have the forgiveness thing down like I don't think I hold the grudge anymore 261 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:25.600 But why you know but but you're not letting the full life of God through you because flow through you because you haven't learned to honor 262 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.640 The extra step then you know after you okay, I forgave the person now. I'm gonna honor that person 263 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:33.200 I'm gonna put them I'm gonna I'm gonna see them with value 264 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.880 And when you see what someone through that with value with the eyes of Jesus 265 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:43.600 You can't help but prophesy you can't help but speak to their value and call out who they are you can't help but 266 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:46.160 You know, I'm not talking about some weird thing 267 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:51.280 I'm talking about calling out the life of God and them calling out the purposes of God over their life calling out 268 00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:56.720 The value that he deposited from the beginning of time the Bible says that he he predestined us for good works 269 00:20:56.800 --> 00:20:58.800 That we should walk in them every single one of us 270 00:20:59.280 --> 00:21:04.240 And so when we value someone we start to we start to call that out of you look. I see in you 271 00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:10.480 This thing of honor or this that thing of honor. I see in you a love for people. I see in you an ingenuity 272 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:14.160 I see in you a creativity. I see in you this this thing of honor and 273 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:18.880 God loves you and God wants to use that and God sees that God values you 274 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:24.480 So we're supposed to be ministers of the very love of Jesus that we received in our lives 275 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:31.760 And at a time like this where there's so much political turmoil so much division so much arguing 276 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.200 We can honor people without agreeing with them 277 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:40.960 You know the you don't have to have the same politics at all in fact 278 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.000 We're called not to agree with sin 279 00:21:44.560 --> 00:21:48.080 But that doesn't mean we we stop honoring people and loving people 280 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:53.920 And so when we keep that honor and that love first we can speak to people calmly like you get in the conversation 281 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:56.880 I get these conversations and in business all the time where 282 00:21:57.520 --> 00:22:02.880 People are trying to get me into offense. They're trying to prod and poke me in a negotiation 283 00:22:03.360 --> 00:22:07.760 To be offended and then you lose your control you lose your ration and you sort of just lash out 284 00:22:07.840 --> 00:22:09.360 Then you've lost the battle 285 00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:12.480 But when you can stay in honor when you can stay in love 286 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:18.640 Your it keeps your head cool calm collected and you can have a conversation and you're the entire time 287 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:20.480 You know, Jesus loves this person 288 00:22:21.040 --> 00:22:23.040 You know how dare I insult them? 289 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.440 Jesus died for this person. How dare I 290 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:28.880 Lord it over them or abuse them in some way 291 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:32.400 So we need to recover 292 00:22:33.280 --> 00:22:41.920 That the awe of of our salvation that that wonder of the love that we've been showed in Jesus and show that to others 293 00:22:45.040 --> 00:22:47.040 So honor for for family and marriage 294 00:22:48.320 --> 00:22:50.800 There's a this favor there too 295 00:22:51.040 --> 00:22:55.920 The Bible says that he finds a wife finds a good thing it obtains favor from the Lord 296 00:22:56.320 --> 00:22:59.840 So you always see this connection honor and favor so 297 00:23:00.560 --> 00:23:05.760 We all want more honor and favor in our life. We always sorry. We want more favor and grace in our lives 298 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.080 We need more favor and grace in our lives to do the things that God's called us to do 299 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:12.640 We can't do them without his favor and without his grace 300 00:23:13.840 --> 00:23:15.040 honor 301 00:23:15.040 --> 00:23:17.360 Keeps us in a position our hearts in a position 302 00:23:17.760 --> 00:23:21.520 Where we're aligned with the things of God and we're cooperating with his moving 303 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:29.840 Without the honor and the love of God in our lives where we step out of alignment and we block some of the flow of his grace and power in our lives 304 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.320 All right honor for authority. Oh, this is a tough one 305 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:40.800 Our culture teaches us to question authority 306 00:23:41.600 --> 00:23:44.560 um the Bible teaches us to honor authority and again 307 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.400 It's it's it's it's it's it's not about um 308 00:23:49.040 --> 00:23:51.760 The authority being perfect. He talks about ungodly authority 309 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:59.040 Being honoring of a godly authority. We can have an honoring heart towards ungodly authority and not follow everything 310 00:23:59.840 --> 00:24:05.520 That ungodly authority tells us to do. There's lots of examples of honorable disobedience in the Bible 311 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:12.640 Shadrach Mishik and Abendigo ended up in a furnace for not bowing the knee to what the edict was which is a to worship other gods 312 00:24:13.040 --> 00:24:19.120 But they didn't lose there. They didn't stop. They didn't dishonor the king Daniel ended up in a lion's den 313 00:24:20.560 --> 00:24:21.920 And still 314 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:25.840 honored the king he said oh king lived forever when he was pulled out of the the lion's den 315 00:24:25.840 --> 00:24:27.360 He still maintained his 316 00:24:27.360 --> 00:24:29.040 Uh honor of the king in his respect 317 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:35.280 Even while being mistreated and when we do that we show that we are a different a different world 318 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.000 Because the people don't respond that way 319 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:45.760 Jesus was was a radical because he didn't respond the way that they were expecting him to respond he didn't defend himself 320 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:53.440 When he was mocked and beaten he took it he knew where he was headed and he knew what it was for 321 00:24:53.840 --> 00:24:59.440 But he said an example for us that we don't lash out when we're when we're mistreated and wronged 322 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:04.560 Instead we honor and we love and as we do that the love of god flows through our lives 323 00:25:05.040 --> 00:25:09.760 We sense the fear of the Lord for people in our relationship with the people that we treat people with 324 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:13.840 With honor as a as a holy thing and not as a common thing 325 00:25:19.360 --> 00:25:23.040 My uh there's there's honor for there's honor for the over looked 326 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:25.040 Um 327 00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:29.920 So often in our society. It's all about the celebrity. It's all about the one with the biggest intellect 328 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:32.800 Uh the best looks the most money 329 00:25:33.280 --> 00:25:37.200 Those are the people that we honor as this as a society. That's not what the Bible teaches at all 330 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:39.440 In fact Jesus 331 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:42.320 On multiple occasions that don't prevent the children from coming to me 332 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:46.880 And why were the disciples doing that because children were not as important right 333 00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:49.120 But to Jesus they were they had the same value 334 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:54.160 And so he would he would bring them in and say you know the kingdom of heaven is is of such as these 335 00:25:54.800 --> 00:25:58.080 And he would he would honor and he he called it out for disciples 336 00:25:58.560 --> 00:26:02.240 If you want to be great you got to be the servant of all you got to honor all 337 00:26:02.800 --> 00:26:05.600 Right even the little ones even those little you know 338 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.400 poopy diaper 339 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:13.600 Children that we have you know our children just you know have have have are to be given honor 340 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:15.920 They are 341 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:17.920 They are precious to Jesus 342 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.000 And he he he shed his blood for them just as much as for us and for 343 00:26:22.560 --> 00:26:26.240 um and and and we as a society often 344 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:28.320 dishonor 345 00:26:28.320 --> 00:26:31.360 And categorize people and instead of 346 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.000 realizing to Jesus 347 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:36.960 Jesus honors all 348 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.680 My father is uh when we we had we had a joke at at our house growing up that 349 00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:46.640 My dad would go to the grocery store, which was like five minutes away for eggs or milk real quick 350 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:48.720 And he'd come back two hours later 351 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:50.880 Really because he was such a social 352 00:26:51.520 --> 00:26:53.680 Person that he got caught up in conversations 353 00:26:53.760 --> 00:26:56.960 But the thing with my my father that I love about him so much is 354 00:26:57.840 --> 00:27:01.920 He really reflects the heart of God because he takes the time for 355 00:27:02.560 --> 00:27:06.160 Every single person does it wouldn't matter if it was a a former student 356 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.320 He was a schoolteacher for a while wouldn't matter if it was 357 00:27:09.120 --> 00:27:12.800 Somebody in the in the shopping aisle. He just met that wanted a conversation 358 00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:16.000 He could tell that they were lonely. He was he would take the time and 359 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:20.960 Everywhere you go in my father people people he gets stuck in conversations 360 00:27:22.320 --> 00:27:25.760 But people love him because they feel seen and heard by him 361 00:27:26.560 --> 00:27:28.720 As you remember one of the translations of honor 362 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:32.240 Has a connotation of to listen to and 363 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:35.440 What would happen is if we were that type of 364 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:40.080 Of honoring to people that we see in our daily lives our co-workers 365 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:46.480 Our bosses our friends our neighbors that we take the time you know New York City puts puts 366 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:49.440 The value of schedule way above 367 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:55.680 Taking the time for people especially people you know that aren't of the same socioeconomic class as us 368 00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:01.680 Are in our lives. We we avoid eye contact. We avoid connection in the city because we don't have the time 369 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:04.800 In Jesus had the time 370 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:10.160 You know, and I see that reflected in in how my father would interact with people growing up 371 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:13.680 He always took the time and it didn't matter. There was nothing in it for him 372 00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:17.040 You know, he was just he wanted to show the love of Jesus 373 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:20.960 It's powerful guys 374 00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:23.840 Um 375 00:28:23.840 --> 00:28:27.680 There's that there's a generational honor that I believe the Lord wants to restore to the church 376 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:30.080 You see it in 377 00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:32.640 Luke 117 when John the Baptist was 378 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.960 Was a fulfillment of the prophecy in Malachi of turning the hearts of the fathers to the sons and the sons to the fathers 379 00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:43.520 I believe the Lord wants to bring a an honor back that's to intergenerational 380 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:47.120 The God is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob there 381 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:55.040 He's a God of generations and it's always been a cultural norm at least in the United States for one culture to one one 382 00:28:55.040 --> 00:28:59.760 Generation to reject the prior generation for sons to reject the ways of their fathers 383 00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:05.920 And the that's not the heart of God the God God wants the one generation building on the next generation 384 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:11.920 So that our faith builds and yes the the Lord may reveal a new thing bring new revival want some old things to end 385 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:18.080 But we do it with honor and we include the generation before us as we raise up and the week we only 386 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.960 Care for the next generation that's coming up and we don't just make fun of there 387 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:29.440 You know, they're jargon and they're in their their ways, you know, I've I've felt this 388 00:29:30.080 --> 00:29:32.960 This thing about parenting recently where I feel like the Lord 389 00:29:33.840 --> 00:29:36.320 Has been teaching me to not laugh too much of my children 390 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:38.960 Um because they do a lot of funny things 391 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:44.560 But I don't want them to feel self-conscious by laughing at them all the time and by not taking them seriously 392 00:29:44.560 --> 00:29:46.160 I want to just talk to them 393 00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:48.400 Even when they're saying that most ridiculous things 394 00:29:49.040 --> 00:29:54.640 And make them feel heard and valued because I want them to always feel included in in conversation 395 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:59.840 And I want them to feel that we're really seeing them and not just seeing them as a joke 396 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:05.200 And I think you know intergenerational in the church we need to be that way, you know, we need to 397 00:30:06.080 --> 00:30:11.760 Make the effort to understand the culture that's not like ours when you make the make the effort to 398 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.280 Understand the next generation or the older generation and value the wisdom value the zeal 399 00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:23.360 That we offer each other and really see the church united generationally 400 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:32.400 Special honor a special honor for church church leaders the Bible talks about 401 00:30:33.360 --> 00:30:40.320 Double honor for elders first Timothy 517 says that we are to count worthy of double honor 402 00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:43.200 Especially those who labor in word and doctrine 403 00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:50.640 So the Bible also says that the the people in who are leaders of the church watch over our souls 404 00:30:51.120 --> 00:30:53.360 Which is an incredible passage because 405 00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:57.040 I didn't I didn't know we needed that right like 406 00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:00.640 Christianity in America is so individualistic that 407 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:06.080 I thought it was just a relationship with God. It's not it's a relationship with God and his people 408 00:31:06.560 --> 00:31:11.040 And if you don't have a relationship with the people his people you won't very long have a relationship with God 409 00:31:11.760 --> 00:31:17.920 And and there's there's a there the thing about deception is when you step out of fellowship 410 00:31:18.800 --> 00:31:20.480 The first time you step out of fellowship 411 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:25.680 And this is what happened to me before I had my 13 year back sliding when you first step out of fellowship. Guess what happens 412 00:31:26.800 --> 00:31:28.800 nothing 413 00:31:29.760 --> 00:31:35.200 It feels like nothing happened all you you have more free time the weekends are free 414 00:31:35.760 --> 00:31:39.600 Oh, I'm gonna get take up on you hobby. I'm not going to church anymore. I still love God 415 00:31:40.800 --> 00:31:46.160 But you know, I feel fine and I feel free and you know nothing's nothing's missing 416 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.160 the problem is 417 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:53.200 Your the Jesus said that if you build your life on his teachings you're building it on solid rock 418 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.240 And if you don't if you ignore his teachings you're building it on sand 419 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:01.040 And when storms of life come your house will crumble and fall if you don't follow his teachings 420 00:32:01.520 --> 00:32:03.600 And he and and the Bible is very clear 421 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:10.720 That our our faith has to be walked out in relationship with other believers and deep covenant relationship 422 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:16.640 Not fickle flaky see you once a weekend maybe for a few minutes relationships 423 00:32:18.080 --> 00:32:20.320 It's vital to our faith it can't be stressed enough 424 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:21.920 um 425 00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:25.760 And our church leaders watch over our souls to protect us 426 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:31.040 We're often likened in scripture to sheep who need a shepherd or or a protector 427 00:32:32.320 --> 00:32:37.280 And there's a spiritual power there. There's a spiritual authority there to watch over and protect 428 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:41.760 Do leaders sometimes make mistakes? Yeah do meet do other scandals and churches? Yes 429 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:47.840 That doesn't change the gospel that doesn't change the Bible and we are we are we are called to stay in fellowship 430 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:54.400 To move through the storms of life be that house built on the rock and and stay in fellowship and stay 431 00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:59.680 Connected with people and not stop stop honoring what the Lord says is honorable 432 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.640 Yeah, man 433 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:04.960 So some things that honors honor does 434 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.960 It's an active surrender and trust in the Lord 435 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:12.000 It's a matter of the heart or reflection of God's heart for us 436 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:18.000 Well, we're still sinners Christ died for us. It's unconditional as a heart posture 437 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:22.400 It recognizes and values authority while not missing the overlook 438 00:33:23.280 --> 00:33:31.200 So it's top down and bottom up. It notices the unnoticed what also respects authority. It's beautiful actually 439 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.000 um 440 00:33:34.080 --> 00:33:38.800 Honor honors others focused rather than self-focused it embraces authority 441 00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:41.760 uh and authority figures in our life 442 00:33:42.560 --> 00:33:45.280 It acts towards people as unto the Lord 443 00:33:46.560 --> 00:33:48.080 It requires trust in the Lord 444 00:33:49.040 --> 00:33:51.040 It rebuffs and repels offense 445 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:56.800 So think about honor like it's really hard to be honoring somebody and get offended by that person 446 00:33:57.280 --> 00:34:01.520 Right, because you're seeing their value despite so you're here if you're if you're heart and your focus is 447 00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:07.120 This person is loved and valued by God and they can see the vileist thing and I'll just be like okay 448 00:34:07.520 --> 00:34:14.160 God loves you, you know, and so I love you and that anchors our our attitude and it anchors our relationships with people 449 00:34:15.120 --> 00:34:17.920 We become unoffendable imagining unoffendable 450 00:34:18.720 --> 00:34:20.720 I'm still working on it 451 00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:24.560 um 452 00:34:24.560 --> 00:34:27.040 Requires honor for requires forgiveness and love 453 00:34:28.160 --> 00:34:29.520 honor 454 00:34:29.520 --> 00:34:31.760 Is the surest way to develop godly character 455 00:34:32.720 --> 00:34:36.960 If you live and honor towards people and you're unoffendable boy 456 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.760 That's pretty that's pretty good character 457 00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:44.640 Okay, because Jesus said we're to turn the other cheek and that's one of the hardest things to do 458 00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:51.760 It doesn't make us weak it makes us stronger to be in the face of offense and honor and bless and return good for evil 459 00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:55.680 That's the hardest thing to do punching back is the is the instinctive thing to do 460 00:34:56.160 --> 00:34:57.120 um 461 00:34:57.120 --> 00:35:03.120 Lashing out is the instinctive thing to do if you ever noticed when you when you get done gossiping about people you feel dirty 462 00:35:06.080 --> 00:35:10.720 Have you ever tried like blessing people when they're not around talking highly of them 463 00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:13.440 It's the opposite 464 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:15.280 It feels amazing 465 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.040 You know boy past or mo he is so anointed 466 00:35:19.680 --> 00:35:23.360 He's had such an influence in my life man. I don't know where I'd be without him 467 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.640 You know those types of things imagine if that got back to him 468 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:33.200 You know imagine if somebody said go Brian was talking about you the other day and he said, you know, you really blessed him 469 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.560 Now now like three or four people got blessed in that chain 470 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:39.920 It's the so we need to start we need to start 471 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:47.680 Seasoning our language with more and more of that building people up reminding reminding ourselves and others of all the people 472 00:35:47.680 --> 00:35:49.680 Have played a role in our development 473 00:35:50.080 --> 00:36:00.160 There's a special honor for the for the body of Christ in fact if you go to first Corinthians 474 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:09.440 12 there's a very interesting sequence of scriptures that I mean that I'm still like spending a lot of time with 475 00:36:10.160 --> 00:36:15.920 Paul is talking about communion and he's talking about properly honoring the body of Christ 476 00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:22.480 And then he shifts into an analogy of the body of Christ being believers that are interconnected with each other 477 00:36:23.040 --> 00:36:27.280 And it's such a beautiful thing because he's going from talking about communion where we take the 478 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:30.400 You know the body and blood of Christ and we and we honor what he's done 479 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:38.400 And then he says you are the body of Christ and he's talking about being discerning of the body of Christ being respectful of the body of Christ and and and 480 00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:41.440 And by doing so he's elevating in our eyes 481 00:36:42.160 --> 00:36:44.640 How important the church body is? 482 00:36:46.720 --> 00:36:50.480 He goes on to talk about how each part of the body is interconnected with each other 483 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.920 And that we receive what we need from other people 484 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.400 And he says that you know in Ephesians he said each person is given a grace 485 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:04.000 Of a measure of grace from Christ and again in in first Corinthians 486 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.240 12 487 00:37:06.240 --> 00:37:07.440 Verse seven 488 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:11.520 He said that the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the prophet of all 489 00:37:12.240 --> 00:37:13.360 so 490 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.080 Paul is 491 00:37:14.160 --> 00:37:15.840 Paul is showing that 492 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.440 That the value of the body of Christ is that when you're connected into the body of Christ you get what you need spiritually 493 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:26.560 Which you also receive from heaven gifts to give to other people in the body of Christ 494 00:37:26.560 --> 00:37:32.560 So the whole spiritual gifts chapter which which which is sandwiched between him talking about communion then the body of Christ 495 00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:35.760 and then the love of God is 496 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:41.600 Is intended to say all this all this stuff you get from heaven is to bless others 497 00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:45.440 The only actual there's one spiritual gift that's for building ourselves up and that's the gift of tongues 498 00:37:45.680 --> 00:37:47.440 Everything else is to give away 499 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:52.800 So if you're not connected in a relationship you're not experiencing any of the life flow of of Jesus through your life 500 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.440 The relationships is where all of that happens 501 00:37:55.520 --> 00:38:02.160 So there's a whole part of your faith that hasn't even started yet until you're in relationship with other believers 502 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:05.600 And so you have to you have to get rooted and grounded 503 00:38:06.160 --> 00:38:11.120 In a church and vulnerable relationships where the life of God can flow through you all of the gifts of the spirit 504 00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:14.320 Are God so honoring and blessing 505 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:19.040 Relationships in the church that he super charges and blesses you to give more away to others 506 00:38:19.680 --> 00:38:21.280 Imagine that I mean 507 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.680 God is is so affirming and 508 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:30.240 Blessing and calling us into relationship that he tells us an interconnected body where every single part is necessary 509 00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:37.520 New we can't live without any part of the body we need all the parts and every part has value and as you connect 510 00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:43.200 He's going to supercharge your love and your grace towards others with gifts to give away to those people 511 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.720 And then he talks about honor in that same chapter chapter 12 512 00:38:46.720 --> 00:38:51.840 He says that that the parts that we see that the parts that we often overlook 513 00:38:52.560 --> 00:39:00.480 Are deserving of more honor and so he's calling us to actually surround the weaker parts of the body with honor 514 00:39:01.040 --> 00:39:03.040 What does that look like so? 515 00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:05.360 We had some people over for a barbecue the other day 516 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.760 We're all sitting around eating we had the little kids out where they're running around 517 00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:14.720 Kind of we're on in a circle and all the adults are just you know mesmerized with the kids 518 00:39:15.120 --> 00:39:18.320 They were like these kids are so cute. They're amazing. I said I know 519 00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:22.160 Um to accept for sometimes or not 520 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:26.640 And they were they were they were the life of the party. We were 521 00:39:27.200 --> 00:39:29.440 Completely focused on their every word 522 00:39:30.080 --> 00:39:34.240 They're every they're every little joke. They're every little funny nuance and 523 00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:39.920 That's that's what Paul's talking about about giving greater honor to the weakest among us 524 00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.520 None of the adults in that circle are saying well what about me? I want some attention 525 00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:47.520 You know, we we were just fixated on the kids as the natural 526 00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:53.360 weakest among us that needed the most attention and love and that's the way the body the body of crisis supposed to be 527 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:56.560 We have a new believer who comes in and doesn't know anything about anything 528 00:39:56.560 --> 00:39:57.360 That's okay 529 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:02.320 There's a bunch of us who are going to surround you and and and help you and love you to walk out the things of God 530 00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:06.240 And we're all going to do our part. It's not there's no clicks in the body of Christ. There's no 531 00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:09.120 Hey, this is my little group over here. There's my little group over there 532 00:40:09.520 --> 00:40:12.160 That's now what God's called us to. I mean, it's okay to have your group of friends 533 00:40:12.160 --> 00:40:16.720 That's totally fine, but we are supposed to be looking out for the weakest among us and surrounding them 534 00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:21.040 With love and letting the gifts of God flow through us and think sometimes in the commit charismatic church 535 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:23.840 We get it completely wrong because we go to a conference or something 536 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:25.680 We say I want more spiritual gifts in my life 537 00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:28.240 But we have no relationship connection to anybody 538 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:33.840 So there's no point like the spiritual gifts are still flow in covenant relationship with the body of Christ 539 00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:38.400 The church that were planted in and committed to and that we're willing to go through the hard times with 540 00:40:38.720 --> 00:40:44.000 You know some of us are one offense away from leaving the church or one wrong conversation away 541 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:47.600 And the Lord wants to change all of that. He wants to say make a decision 542 00:40:48.080 --> 00:40:54.640 Plant your feet and stay and only then can I start to develop and you the character that I've that I want to develop in your life 543 00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:56.800 He's going to use 544 00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:02.240 Conflict with people sometimes to develop your character. He's going to use being misunderstood sometimes to develop your character 545 00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:03.760 He's going to use 546 00:41:04.160 --> 00:41:08.560 Human relationship and friction that happens there to develop you into who he wants you to be 547 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:11.920 But if you abort the process all the time you'll never grow up in the Lord 548 00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:16.160 You'll always go to a new church where they feed you a little bit and you feel fat and you never use it 549 00:41:16.240 --> 00:41:21.920 And you wonder why don't I flow in the gifts of the spirit why why don't I have this call on my life 550 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:26.480 Well, you've never understood the value of the body of Christ you never plugged in and Paul's giving us a road map 551 00:41:26.560 --> 00:41:32.640 Right here. He's saying you belong to a body you plug in and then you start to bless 552 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.280 Through relationships and the Lord will give you the favor and the grace on your life 553 00:41:38.240 --> 00:41:44.560 Now remember the honor the honor that that Paul's talking about for the for the for the weaker members in the body 554 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:49.760 What does honor do honor puts a draw on the anointing in people's life? 555 00:41:50.240 --> 00:41:52.720 So he saw that in that first scripture by Jesus could not do 556 00:41:53.680 --> 00:41:58.320 Many mighty works because of the unbelief the offense and there was no draw. There's no honor 557 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:03.280 So when we honor people in our midst, you know, we start to we start to receive 558 00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:08.960 Things from them that are on their life that we need the Bible says that every part of the body is necessary 559 00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:14.000 So we put a draw on that and we begin to learn things from each other through the spirit 560 00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:17.760 So, you know, if you want to maximize your growth in Christ 561 00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:24.720 You know invest in a relationship and honor your brother and sister in Christ. You know begin to draw out 562 00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:29.360 A spiritual spiritual anointing from them you'll be able to draw out the gifts that are on their life 563 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.960 We all have them you know nobody exempt 564 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:38.160 We all have gifts in our life of the Lord is trying to activate and what wants to pull out of us 565 00:42:38.640 --> 00:42:43.840 Through the honoring culture that he's developing this church has it this church 566 00:42:44.640 --> 00:42:49.600 And all I'm trying to do is is elevate it so we're more aware of it and more focused on it 567 00:42:50.080 --> 00:42:53.520 The reason I'm standing here today is because this church has it this church 568 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:58.480 He's got it like in spades and if you're newer to this church plug into this church 569 00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:02.480 Because the relationships it might seem like a mundane thing again 570 00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.720 We need to honor that thing and value that thing and the life of God will start to flow 571 00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:11.520 It doesn't matter who start with the person that you're closest to start with a life group start with some 572 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:17.600 Connection and just start investing and being faithful those few relationships and watch what God does in your life 573 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.400 It's not going to be this big flashy thing all of a sudden 574 00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:25.440 But you're going to start to feel the life of God flowing through you and to you as you connect with people 575 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:32.240 And and and remember we're called to honor and lift up our brothers and sisters and as we do we're actually 576 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.040 Pulling them into their destiny in God. We're pulling the anointing of God out of them 577 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:46.640 And so that's why I think the Bible says to surround with the weaker members with greater honor because we're pulling them out of a place of weakness and to strength in in Jesus 578 00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:51.120 So father as the worship team comes up father. We just 579 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:58.720 We bless you Lord. We want to be a church who understands honor. Father. We want to be a church who 580 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.040 who 581 00:44:01.040 --> 00:44:06.880 Blesses and honors our brothers and sisters father forgive us for treating us common the things that you 582 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:09.200 Call holy father 583 00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:16.480 Forgive us for treating as a mundane the things of of the spirit father the things of of your body father 584 00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:20.080 Causes to have a new on appreciation for your church 585 00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.520 Causes to have a new on appreciation for the power of honor 586 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:31.280 That we make participate in the life of Jesus. We might participate in the ministry of the cross to the world around us 587 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:34.560 Father and let us start in this church by building each other up father 588 00:44:34.560 --> 00:44:39.120 As your word says we are to outdo each other with honor and in Romans father 589 00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:46.560 We are to outdo each other with honor. So let this church be a church that speaks life that speaks life in front of people and behind their backs 590 00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:48.480 Father, let this be a church whether 591 00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:54.720 Criticism is rarely heard or never heard. Let's father. Let this be a church where we surround the weakest among us 592 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:59.360 That they may grow in the in the strength in the knowledge of the Lord in Jesus mighty name 593 00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:00.880 Amen 594 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.520 This is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message 595 00:45:05.680 --> 00:45:09.840 Or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on Janskik in city light church 596 00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:14.080 Visit us at citylight NYC dot com that's city light 597 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.320 NYC dot com 598 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:21.360 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime we would love to connect with you 599 00:45:22.160 --> 00:45:24.160 We pray that you have been encouraged today 600 00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:29.840 That you have been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace 601 00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:37.440 Thank you for listening make sure that you subscribe to city light church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide