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So they take this man and they bring him up to the roof and they start breaking off the tiles

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of the roof and they lower him into where Jesus is because they realize something. Healing

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is here, Jesus is here and honoring Jesus is the gateway for me to walk in the miraculous.

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Honoring God is the gateway. Honoring is the gateway for the miraculous in your life.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word

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and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team

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believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you

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listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded

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by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. Nathaniel Saint Iloy

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He scolded me this morning because I said special guest. He's like, I'm family. What do you mean

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special guest? I had to explain to him like, that's for the new people. It sounds fancier. I can't

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say my brother from another mother is here in a preacher. But like, international renowned speaker,

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special guest, he's got a word for you this morning. Just lift your hand to heaven and say, Lord,

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I believe that I receive. Pull your hands into you. Just, I receive. Let's put our hands together

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not under the man of God. Praise the Lord. You know, I was here thinking and 25 years in ministry,

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is a big deal. You know, when God made the promise to Abraham, he made the promise to Abraham at

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75 years old and the promise was fulfilled 25 years later. 25 years is so significant in

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you literally giving birth to something that you've been processing. And I believe this 25 years

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of ministry is just going to catapult pastor boy on into the next level.

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I believe everything that he's been praying for and the Lord has given him prophetic promises about

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and with the Lord is spoken in his spirit. This 25 years, you're going to give birth to the promise

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that God spoke over you in the name of Jesus. It's like I saw you being clothed in priestly garments

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for your 25. It's like I saw King Lee garments. You know, I saw God taking off the priestly

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garments and putting on King Lee garments on him. If you know anything about the scriptures,

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the Levites, the priests served from 25 to 50. But I heard the Lord say, I'm stripping off

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the priestly and I'm putting on the King Lee. Oh, y'all been a rejoice for your pastor.

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It's like you've been patiently waiting and this is going to be the season you seize everything

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God promised you. You've been sitting on promises, sitting on miracles, sitting on things that God

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spoke over you. And this is going to be the season of manifestation in the name of Jesus.

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You know, Hebrews 615 says about Abraham during his 25 years of waiting. It says after he had

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patiently endured, he obtained the promise. That's my prophetic word for you for the next 25 years

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that as you waited 25, the next 25 is going to be filled with destiny promises being fulfilled

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for you and for city life in Jesus name. All right. Now that I got that off my chest.

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Amen. Now I felt that so strong prophetically. I was sitting there and I heard the Lord say,

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25 years is good is the fulfillment of everything I spoke over you. And this is why you're so settled

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now. This is why your family so settled now. This is why you things don't stress you out like they

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used to because this 25 years is when the Lord is going to just fortify everything. Can y'all

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make some noise for the man of God and for the miracles that God's doing? All right. Let's get

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into the word. The title of my sermon today is honor God's doorway to a life of rewards.

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I want to talk about honor, a spirit of honor and what honor looks like. Before I even get into

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any scriptures, I just want to give a definition of what honor is. Is that okay with everyone?

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Oh, I guess they don't want to hear it. Honor in the Greek simply and literally the definition

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is a valuing system when you value something. When you speak of the word to a Greek person of

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that time, they would think of something precious, something weighty, like gold. When you think

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of gold, you just don't put it in some backdrop. Like you have gold. You put it in a safe place.

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You put it in a place of importance. You put it, hey, I got a security box. I'm going to put it

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in the security box. I have a safe. I'm going to put it in the safe. You don't believe it on your

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table, right? Because you value it. So honor has to do with a valuing system. And a lot of us,

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we mistake an honor and respect. They're two different things, right? The word honor has to

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do with valuing the word respect has to do with what someone does. It's earned and is gained

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based off actions. So for example, the Bible doesn't say respect your mother and your father.

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Why? Because parents do things that the church say, man, parents do things sometimes that you

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look at and you're like, that's not really worth my respect. But the Bible didn't say respect them.

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It said honor your mother and your father knowing that they're going to do things that sometimes

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are not honorable. But God's command is to honor any way. Amen. So can we look at the scripture

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Ephesians chapter things where maybe drug addicts who maybe messed up in life. The Bible doesn't tell

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you obey them. It says honor them. Put a value on them, even if they don't deserve. It's not about

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deserving. And then look what the scripture says because you know this is part of the 10 commandments

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to honor your mother and your father. It's part of the original 10, right? Listen to what God says if

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you honor your mother and your father. This is how much God puts a valuing system on honor.

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This is how much God looks at honor and says, this is so important to me. I'm going to attach a

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promise to it. It's so important and valuable to me. I'm attaching blessing to it. We look at

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honor, especially in a society, right? Where social media and media and even the church,

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they find every opportunity to make fun of political leaders, to make fun of other people,

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to belittle people, to look down on people. We find it in every culture. I was even watching

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Oprah the other day. And there was a whole group of adults saying, I don't talk to my parents

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anymore. I would nothing to do with them. I'm cutting them off because they're toxic and they're

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terrible. The culture loves to dishonor. But in the midst of a culture of dishonor, God tells you

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honor has blessings, rewards, breakthrough, and harvest attached to it. He says, if you honor your

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mother and your father, here's the blessing. It may be well with you. That means your life is

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going to be a good life. Man, you're going to live a blessed life because of honor.

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Honor is the key for you to tap into supernatural things you didn't walk in before.

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Honor is a key to doorway for you to step into favor. He says, it may be well with you. And then

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here's the second part of the promise that comes because of honor. You may live long on the earth.

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So here's the thing. When the devil tries to lie to you and tell you you're going to die early,

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you're going to say, no, I will not die early because I have a culture of honor in my life.

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And honor is going to be the doorway for a long life, a satisfied life, a blessed life,

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a life where your youth is renewed like the Eagles. I prophesy you're going to be like Caleb,

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even when you're 80 years old, you're going to have the strength of a 45 year old because honor

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is going to open up the door of miracles, rewards, breakthrough, and your life in Jesus name.

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Somebody say I sense a culture of honor. Can I say something? I'm not preaching this word because

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this church doesn't have it. I'm preaching it because the more honor is the more blessing.

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I'm not saying that you guys don't love your pastors and don't honor your leaders. What I'm trying

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to tell you is the more honor among you guys as just members, the more honor to spiritual leaders,

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the more honor to political leaders, the more honor even at the place of disagreement. That's where

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God's blessing rests. Somebody says God's blessing is when I pray. Yeah, you can pray and not honor and

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miss out on God's best. This is good because honor is a value and system. God said I got 10 commandments

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that are really important and one of them I'm going to attach a blessing to it. It's not

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left the Lord with all your heart. It's not don't cover your neighbor's wife and belongings. No,

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it's not that one. It's honor. So from the beginning, God's like honor has blessings attached

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to it. Honor has favor attached to it. Honor has my grace attached to it. That's how much God

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values it. So God values it on that level. Guess what I want to do? Value it on that. Someone is

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smart in the house. So the first principle I need us to know is that God is a rewarder. His

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desire from the beginning was to bless you. He is a rewarder. Do you know when he created the earth,

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he created it as a reward for us? Eden, perfect. Eden, no blemish, no fault. Everything God did was

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as a reward for his children. Even Jesus dying on the cross was a reward for us. We did wrong and

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God still is giving us a reward. Man, we messed up. And God's like, still give you that reward.

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Here's the participation trophy. All right, let's look at a few scriptures. Hebrews 11 verse 6.

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Here's what it says, but with our faith, it is impossible to please him. You've got to come to God

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of faith. For it is for he who comes to God must come believing that he is and that he is the

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rewarder. Part of his nature is rewarder. So even when you pray, God, thank you that you're rewarder.

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You're rewarding me because you're God. You give rewards. He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek

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him. Then I want to look at one more verse. Look at this. So you can know that God wants to reward you.

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I have like 20 verses, but I'm just going to look at one more. Because I mean, look it up on your

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own time. Look it up this week. God's reward system and how God wants to reward his people. You'll

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see it over and over and over and over. And because of Jesus, the reward is not because of our good

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works anymore. It's because of his grace. All right. One more. We're going to look at the second

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John one. We're going to say second John one eight. Isn't there only one chapter in John? Why did I have to

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put one eight? You just put eight. She's redundant. Look to yourselves that we do not lose those

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things we worked for, but that we may receive a. So the Bible is telling you that God's a rewarder.

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He loves to reward his people. And the scripture says you can do certain things to receive a

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not just a partial reward, but a full reward. And cannot tell you honor is the gateway to walk into

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the full rewards of God. So we're going to talk about three levels of rewards. And we're going to look

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at three different groups of people's behavior. Why some were able to walk into no rewards, partial

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rewards, and full rewards. Are y'all with me still? All right. I hope you're getting something so far.

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I know this is not like the greatest sermon to get you excited, but it's a sermon that if you

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can grab hold to this principle, I'm telling you you're going to be blessed. When you learn

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honor, God honors you and blesses you. I think I shared this testimony before. My previous pastor

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he was buying his first house. I had when I mean I had no money at $1,200 in my bank account.

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And the Lord told me to sew a thousand dollars into him. That was a honor seed. And when I did it,

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I was doing at the point we were broke. You know how it is, Pastor Boyion, early in ministry.

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I just started preaching full time. I was broke, broke, broke, just got married. And the Lord said,

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you have $1,200 in your checking and savings. Take a thousand dollars and honor the man of God.

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Everything in me was like, he buying the house. I live in a little too bad room apartment.

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But it was the gateway of honor that brought blessing into my life.

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Because I sewed that seed and I got to call a week later, someone gave me a house worth $600,000

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that I never worked for. Because honor is a gateway for the blessing, the overflow, and the harvest of

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God. Somebody say, I'm going to learn honor. So Luke chapter 5 verse 17, Luke chapter 5 verse 17.

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This like this scripture right here is if you're a preacher, it is one of the best

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messages, sermons, verses you can preach. Look what it says.

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A Luke chapter 5 verse 17, now what happened on a certain day as he was teaching that there were

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Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea and

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Jerusalem. When I'm telling you that's far, they're coming from far distances just to hear Jesus

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preach. And Jesus is sitting in the house and he got all these religious leaders listening to him.

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He got the elite of the leaders, lawyers, teachers of the law coming to hear what he has to say.

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And this is the most important part of the verse right here. Verse 17, the last section it says,

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and the power of the Lord was present to heal them, to heal who? Those that were in the house,

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the Pharisees, the teachers of the law. It was there to heal them. It was in the room and it was for

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them. It was in the room and it was for the Pharisees and the religious leaders and they could have

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gotten anything they needed in realms of healing. Physical healing, emotional healing, spiritual

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healing, they could have gotten healed in their soul, their body, their mind, healing was in the room.

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But notice when you read the text, they never got healed. They never were able to tap into the

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healing anointing that was in the room because you can only receive an anointing from who you

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honor and what you honor. You cannot receive an anointing from an anointing you don't honor.

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Honor is the key and the gateway to receive from an anointing that's there. Your pastor is a

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well of insight, information, wisdom, deliverance, knowledge and the way you open up that gateway

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is through the key of honor. When you value him, not just respect him, but you value him and put

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him up here and not down here like he's just, I can do his job, I can do what he does. Well, I know

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I was going to get a lot of amen on this. Oh, it's enough. You know, pastor, all he has to do

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is just preach one time a week and then he gets, he gets a pastor and he needs to come a lot.

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So it's not a big deal, right? But they don't understand the pressure, not just

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preaching, but of leading people and being accountable before the Lord. Where the Lord says,

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if you don't do it right, the blood is on your hands. The scripture even says, many of you should

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not become teachers because you will receive a stricter judgment. But what opened up, healing

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opened up, a portal of healing and anointing for healing and the Pharisees and the teachers of

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the Lord couldn't walk into it because of a lack of honor. But look who walks into it. Then be

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whole. Men brought a bed, brought on a bed, a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in

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and lay him before him. All right. So let me give you the picture. The house is filled with

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Pharisees, religious leaders, scribes, Sadducees. And they're there listening to Jesus. And the

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anointing comes in the room for healing. The anointing comes in the room for breakthrough. The

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anointing comes in the room for God to do something. Guess what? They couldn't receive it.

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The room was packed with people who had no honor. The room was packed with people who was packed,

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but it was packed with people who did not have a spirit of honor. And God was there to do what

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He had to do. And none of them were able to receive it because of a lack of honor. But here's

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what the scripture says. There was a group of people who were trying to get in and all these

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people who were just taking space. You remember what Pastor Boyah said? There's sometimes people

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just taking space. The leeches. I couldn't find a better word either.

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So they say we got to find a way to get in. So they take this man and they bring him up to the

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roof and they start breaking off the tiles of the roof. And they lower him into where Jesus is

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because they realize something. Healing is here. Jesus is here. And honoring Jesus is the gateway

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for me to walk in the miraculous. Honoring God is the gateway. Honour is the gateway for the

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miraculous in your life. And it was interesting. It wasn't even the paralyzed man who did it because

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he couldn't even do it. It was his friends, which shows me something. A lot of your breakthrough is

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going to come based off who you're connected to. 2026. I don't want to be connected to any

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negative Nazis. I don't want to be connected to any people who want to speak death over what God

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has spoken over my life. I believe God's going to connect you with your Mary, connect you with your

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Elizabeth, connect you with those who see the dream and the potential on the inside of you.

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God's getting ready to connect you with people. We're going to push you closer to your destiny.

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Not push you further away from your destiny. God's getting ready to bring a whole new connection

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and ready you of toxic friendships, toxic people and bring a community that loves you, cares for you

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and sees the best in you. Think about it. He's paralyzed. But they didn't see him as paralyzed.

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They saw him as one who could receive from Jesus. I need friends who can see me in my paralyzed

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state, but see me be armed, be in paralyzed and who are willing to break through so that I can

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get a breakthrough. Oh, I felt that in my spirit. You got to, that can preach. There's some friends

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who are about to break through so you can get a breakthrough. Oh, I see your people. Your tribe

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is coming. Yeah, your community is coming. Your friends are coming. Yeah, the people who

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God's ordained to be in your life are coming in this season and they're going to break through

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so that you can have a breakthrough. They're going to break through barriers so that you can get a

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breakthrough. They're going to go through walls not for themselves so that you can win.

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You need those kind of friends who are going to pray the witches out of your life.

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Who are going to pray that I'm telling you?

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My friend, he was, he was, he was dating this witch.

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Jezebel spirit. Through and through. I like this man said, bro, just, oh, but you know,

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I love her. I said, bro, don't go to sleep. She will cut your hair off.

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Know what I did? I went on a three day fast. I got my own stuff I need.

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I got my own breakthroughs I need. I got stuff from my family that I need. But I realized he was

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at a pivotal point in his life because he was about to marry her. He was at a point where I knew

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his destiny would have been destroyed and everything God called him to do. He couldn't walk into it

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because he was going to marry the wrong person. And so you know what I did as a friend. I said,

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I'm breaking through the tiles for you because you need an encounter with Jesus. This Jezebel needs to

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leave your life and you need to walk in your purpose. No joke. They broke up three months later.

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He started dating a girl that he dated before. They were in love now. I knew this was the right

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person for him. He got married, has a kid. He's blessed. He's working in destiny. He's doing the

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work of the Lord. You need friends to break through for you. Yeah, I need some real friends. I

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don't need friends who talk about my back, who tell people about how bad my issues are,

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how bad my paralysis and how bad my shortcomings are. I need some real friends who are going to

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see me in my worst state and still prophesy over me. I remember, Pastor Boy and me and I remember

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this. We were walking down Williamsburg and I remember this is when I just had a baby out of

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wedlock and I was like, man, my life is over. My ministry is over. God's never going to use me.

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God's never going to do anything in my life. God's never going to do this. God's never going to do

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that. And then Pastor Boy and I looked at me and said, bro, you're 20 something years old.

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That's 25, but close. He said, get over yourself. He said, you're 25. He says, you didn't even make it

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anywhere yet. He says, do you not see what God placed inside of you? Wake up. He don't even

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realize that conversation activated something in me. I said, I'm only 25. I made one mistake. This

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can't define my destiny. He literally broke the tile. I was like, here, don't you see Jesus is

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right here ready to heal your paralysis? Look at you. You don't see what you have. You're sleeping

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on your gifts. I did not mean to be here for so long. Okay. That was for someone. Tell me

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you need to rid your circle. 2026 has to be the year where you begin to purify your circle.

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Get rid of people who are not going to speak God's word over your life. 2026, I'm not going to

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allow people who have no faith to speak into me. And they just spread into dead. I was like, oh,

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it's like an infection. And they keep spreading. And the infections call a lack of faith. I need

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people when they speak. There's faith that gets activated in me where my baby starts jumping.

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Where what's inside of me becomes illuminated and awakened. You know the difference.

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There's people they come into room as soon as they come. Literally, it's like your energy gets

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zapped. Like, why am I so tired? And you come into room. Why am I so upset? Why am I not happy?

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And there's other people they come into room. As soon as they get in the room, you just gotta

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smile on your face. It's because they bring a level of energy. They bring a different type of

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feel into the room because God is with them. What the spirit of the Lord is there's a liberty.

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All right. So, verse 19, when they couldn't find a place to go, they just lowered him. Verse 20,

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this is so interesting. When Jesus saw their faith, not the paralyzed man's faith, the friend's

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faith, he said to the man, your sins are forgiven you. Do you see this is where the drama really

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starts? The Pharisees describes all the people who were in the room who the healing was for them.

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Who never received anything? That's when they go on their rant. Oh, Jesus thinks he could forgive

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sins. Jesus thinks he's all in that. Jesus thinks, oh, and they go on this whole rant and it proves

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to me through their lack of honor. Why healing was in the room and they couldn't receive it.

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I refuse to allow anyone from the outside to get something I should get from in here because of

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a lack of honor. This is good. Soon and very soon, more people are going to ask your pastor to

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come preach to minister, to be at certain events. Don't let those people on the outside receive

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the well that he has and you don't receive it. I'm telling you, he's a well of knowledge.

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When it comes to investing, I'll be hitting him up. What should I do right here and investing?

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Oh, yeah, invest in this. Don't let someone else receive what you should receive in the house

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by having a religious spirit. There's like two sides of this. There's those you've been so hurt

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by churches in the past talking about honor, which was not honor. It was just manipulation and control

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and abuse from leaders that now the principle you throw the baby out with the bath water.

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Not knowing it's still a biblical principle and so important. So there's either that side and

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that group or as the group that you coming from the street from the world, you didn't know Jesus

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and you don't understand the power of honor. Whatever group you're in, you need to get a biblical

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perspective of honor. And once you get that, you'll see God move in harvest and breakthrough.

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All right, so the first group we talked about was the Pharisees, the religious leaders,

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the scribes, they got no reward. The next we're going to talk about is a group who got a partial

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reward because of honor, our lack of honor. You ready to see this? And a lot more to say, I'm to

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every point could be like two to three sermons because there's so much depth in this.

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Can I just say one thing? Do you guys remember the story of Esther?

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There was a queen before Esther. What was her name?

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Vashdi. Oh, yeah, y'all know the scriptures. Yeah.

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And you know what the scripture says about Vashdi? The kingdom was doing amazing. I mean,

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the kingdom was at the peak. Money, prosperity, blessed heaven. Parties every day. I'm talking about

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blessed. I'll talk parties. Imagine parties every day. Imagine like your party every day.

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The kingdom's blessed, but then there was a queen. Her name was Vashdi. No honor.

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The king, king, our exerxes. The first called her, hey, I need you to come. I ain't listening to you,

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king. I need you to come. I ain't listening to you, king. His elders had to come together and say,

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hey, if you don't deal with this lack of honor here, it's not our enemies that are going to

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destroy the kingdom. It's not going to come from the outside. It's not going to come from New York City

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and the government and the laws and the rules. It's not going to come from the outside. It's not

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going to come from the devil, Satan, because we got power over him. The division and the divide

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and the destruction of the kingdom is going to come because of a lack of honor.

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Whoa. Can I tell you something? There's nothing that can make us lose except for us.

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There's nothing that will make you lose in this life except having a lack of honor. First for God,

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then for who God puts in your life. Think about it. Think about if you honor God and you honor people

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how blessed you'll be. Think about everything in your life. The root of it is the Lord challenging

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you to honor better. Think about the interactions with your job and your boss and your community

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and your friends and your husband and your wife. Think about the time you get to argument with her.

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Why? Because the honor wasn't there. I guaranteed if you honored her and she honored you,

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the argument would be done because you know what honor does? Honor looks to put the person first.

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Honor goes and says we disagree but we're not disagreeable. You can't say you honor someone

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until you get to the point of disagreement with them with what they say, what they do. That's

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the proof you really honor them. Respect is we all agree. I respect you because we believe the

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same exact things but let me start saying something you don't like up here. Then it proves to me

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whether you have honor or you just have respect. Mary couples, you want to know how to honor your

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spouse? Think about them first because if one person is thinking about that person first and the

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other person is thinking about the other person first, there is no room to lose. I think about my

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first she's thinking about me first. We're just like what can I do for you? How can I serve you?

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And then she's like no but how can I serve you? No but I'm like no no how can I serve you?

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No let me open your door. No let me rub your feet. Let me give you a little back massage after a

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long day of work. Oh no no babe I'm good. That back massage was good for five minutes. Now let me

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cook you some food. Man honors and poor him. Little Bible says all right let's go.

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So let's look at partial reward. We looked at no reward. Now we're going to look at partial reward.

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Mark chapter six verse five. Here's what it says. Mark six verse we're going to look at verse

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two to five actually. So let's read that whole thing. Um it says and when the Sabbath had come he

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began to teach in the synagogue and many hearing him were astonished saying you see all these

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examples I'm giving is about Jesus right honoring Jesus but I want us to get it in the context of

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honoring the people God placed in our lives especially the leaders that God placed in our lives

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right. So as many hearing him were astonished saying where does this man get these things from?

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Man I'm impressed by what he's teaching and what wisdom is this which is given to him that such

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mighty works are performed by his hands. Look at verse three. Is this not the carpenter so

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there's a group impressed. Man we never heard teaching like this. Man he's working in miracles.

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Man there's supernatural things that God's doing through him.

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Honor and it is another group dishonor. The crowd was divided. There's a crowd honoring Jesus

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and another part of the crowd. Isn't he just a carpenter? Isn't this just Mary's son? Aren't

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his brothers and his sisters with us? So the Bible says they were offended at him but Jesus said

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to them a prophet is without honor. So he saw what they said. How they treated him like common.

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They treated him as normal. They treated him as average and he you don't know what he compared it to

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dishonor. Common, average, normal, regular, mediocre is the language of dishonor.

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Yes, just Mary's son, just a carpenter, just pastor boy on, just my leader, just my church.

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See how sometimes the spirit of dishonor can come in suddenly with our speech,

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it first starts in the heart but it starts, it comes through our speech. Look at this.

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Jesus said a prophet is without honor except in his own country among his own relatives and in

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his own house. Look what verse 5 says. Now why? Now what? You have to look at the verse before

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because of the dishonor. Now he could do no mighty work there. The God who created the heavens

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and the earth, the one who was there from the time everything was formed was like there's a cap

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that's been put on me and the cap that was put on me is called dishonor. And you know God can do

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anything. But he said I can't do mighty works there because the spirit of honor is not there.

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And he only, the Bible says he was only able to lay hands on a few sick people and heal them.

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This honor will put a cap on the miraculous in your life. And because this honor starts here.

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It starts with why do I have to say that? Why do they have to do that? You know when this

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honor starts, Pastor Boyle said it so perfectly when you put race before kingdom.

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And you expect your pastor to speak out on every racial thing that the media is trying to push

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and drive instead of preaching the gospel. Race is not our job. Gospels are our job.

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And then gospel, guess what? We don't treat people any different because of their race. We love

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them. Doesn't matter how they look, doesn't matter how they speak, doesn't matter where they came

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from, doesn't matter their background. We love people because we love them. That's what true

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honor is. It's dishonoring to try to push people to the front because of a racial quota you have.

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That's not honor. Honor goes every person is loved equally because they're made in the image

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of God. That's honor. All right. So they got a partial reward. Now we're going to talk about

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people who got a full reward. All right. Can we just look at Matthew 10 just for a few minutes?

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Matthew 10, 40 to 42 because I want to talk about this how important this is.

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Jesus goes through this whole entire dialogue with the people. Are you all receiving something?

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I really wanted to teach a little bit more today. If that's cool. You know, as a guest preacher,

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a lot of times I preach the sermons. That's what they called me. So that's what I'm going to say.

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As a guest preacher, I tinder it preacher. I preach the things sometimes that your pastor wants to

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preach. But he's like, if I preach, people are going to think it's self-serving.

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Honor me.

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It seems kind of self-serving but it's not as biblical. And then there's blessings attached to it.

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And that's when I come in and he didn't tell me to preach this. He didn't tell me what to

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preach. He never has told me what to preach. And guess what? I go, yeah, you know what?

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This is important. This is how city light goes to the next level.

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Honor is how city light moves to the next level. Because what happens is anyone who walks through

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these doors when a spirit of honor is here, they're going to sense such a love and embrace no matter

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even what's said on the pulpit. They're going to be drawn to Jesus by your love. The Bible says they

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will know we are Christians by our love for one another. Not because we preach powerful sermons

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and we got great power point, we got the right worship team. No, our love is going to draw them.

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Matthew 1040. He who receives you receives me and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

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So Jesus is giving an order. He's giving an order, right? This is the order of honor. First is the

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father, right? I honor the father who sent me. I go to the next. He who receives a profit next in

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line, I honor those who I send. Then the next. He who receives a righteous man honor.

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In the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's

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reward. Every level of honor comes with a level of reward. You can receive the profits reward.

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You can receive the righteous man's reward or look at the next one with it says and whoever gives

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one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple surely I say to you

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he shall by no means lose his. So what is Jesus saying there? Let me break it down very simply.

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Honor has to be on every level. So it shouldn't be hey the church just honors the man of God.

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It should be everyone's honoring each other because there's rewards to honor.

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When you honor someone who the Lord placed over your life there's a level of reward attached to it.

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When you honor your fellow members there's a level of honor to it. When you look at the smallest

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kid in the room and you honor them there's a level of reward attached to it.

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And if you do it the Bible says you will buy no means lose your reward. City light church

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there's a culture of honor coming here and none of you guys are going to lose your rewards.

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God's going to bless you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

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All right let's go let's go to the last one full reward. You're not going to miss your blessing

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because of honor. All right. I have two verses here. Which one do I want to do?

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Now I can't do both I don't have time. Let's do let's do the Mark chapter 7. You see y'all getting

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stuff that they didn't get. Mark chapter 7 verse 24. From there he arose and went to the region

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of Tyre and Sidon and he entered a house and wanted no one to know it but he could not be hidden.

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Jesus was trying to rest. He was trying to relax. He's in a house. I don't want to be bothered

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is nap time. All right my my social batteries on low. I just came from a 50th birthday celebration

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25. I had more conversations with people than I ever had in my life. I'm ready to relax.

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Look at this. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.

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Do you know this woman was from the region of Tyre and Sidon. This was the idol worshiping region.

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This was we know nothing about God here region. This is where disconnected from the covenant

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where disconnected from the promise we have nothing to do with God and look at this.

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See the police is coming for those who are not honoring. I'm just kidding. I'm just joking. I'm

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joking. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him and she came and

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fell at his hold on. She ain't a believer. She ain't a Christian. She's not a good Jewish girl.

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She's far from the promise far from the covenant but understood honor.

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She understood this is not just a regular person here. Look at the difference between the Pharisees

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who were in a house and this woman who didn't even have a strong knowledge of God but who had a

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strong knowledge of honor. See you may not know every scripture in the Bible but if you understand

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the principle of honor you'll see miracles in your life. Think about the Pharisees and the scribes

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and the teachers of the law. They knew the scriptures back and forth. They knew every verse. They

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can debate you on everything. They knew what every scholar had to say. They read every commentary

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but they could not get a miracle from God because it was just head knowledge and it wasn't in the

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heart. And this woman who knew nothing about scripture she probably couldn't quote one verse to

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Jesus but she understood the principle of honor. And that was the catalyst. That was the point of

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breaking through in her life. Verse 26. Look what it says. The woman was a Greek. That means

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idol worshipper. That means didn't know God. A cyro Phoenician by birth. And she kept asking him to

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cast a demon out of her daughter. This is what Jesus says. But Jesus said to her let the children

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be filled first. So those who were in the house. Not the dogs. It's not right to take the children's

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bread and throw it to the little dogs. Listen to her response honor even when you don't feel like

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you're being respected. Because honor is not the same as even when you feel like you're being treated

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like a second class citizen. Honor will still bring miracles into your life. I dare you when your

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boss starts acting up and cursing at you and starts getting upset and doing those passive

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aggressive emails. You know the emails that I'm talking about because y'all sent them all the time

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to pass the boy on and pass the mo. Now I'm just kidding. Some of you do. Most of you don't. But some

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I you know I just don't understand. You know the ones I'm talking about. You don't see them because

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past the mo answers them. Respond with honor. Change your disposition instead of getting angry.

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Honor. Thank you for the great job you're doing. I appreciate you. How can I serve better?

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Watch how that changes everything. I'm not gonna lie. Someone came up to me like

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there's children and there's dogs and you're in the dog cat gory.

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I think personally I would have been a little offended. I know y'all's super saved now.

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But it would have been a little bit of offense not for her.

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She said, yeah Lord I get it. I'm not part of the promise. Yeah I get it. I'm not part of the

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covenant. Yeah I get it. I'm not part of what you're doing on the earth right now. Yeah I get it.

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I'm just an idol worshiper. Yeah I get it. I shouldn't even get any bit of the benefits that

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you have here on earth. I get it. You didn't come for me. I get it. I'm not supposed to get the

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blessing. But even the dogs are able to eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table.

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Jesus said then he said to her for this saying it wasn't even just her worship is what she was saying

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when she worshiped. See your words are going to create your world. Well I'm going to say it again.

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Your words are going to create your world. Her words matched her disposition. It wasn't just

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I'm getting on my knees and I'm doing this false humility thing. I'm really honoring you Jesus

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with my disposition and with my words and then Jesus goes because of what you said because we all

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know something that what you say starts in your so she just wasn't just talking what she said

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let me say like this you know when you get offended what's really in your heart comes out of your

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mouth let them really offend you and start cursing you out hold on a second

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I was trying not to say but I got to say why because what's in here comes out of

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here what's in here comes out of here what's in here out of the abundance of the heart the mouth

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speaketh I like the King James Version on that but what's in here comes out here so for her to say this

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was proof that the honor wasn't just something that she did as a performative thing it was

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something that was literally in her heart and Jesus said because this thing is not just something

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you're doing out of performance but it's really in your heart go your way the demons left your

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and the Bible says when she came to her house she found that the demon had left her daughter

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and her daughter was lying on the bed free totally delivered because a spirit of honor came in

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and opened the gateway for the supernatural in her family's life if you want honor guess what if

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you want blessing and open doors honor is the gateway for the open doors in the supernatural in

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your life I'm going to end with this a few ways you can honor your pastor practical ways that you

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can honor I have a lot more to say but you know honor looks for ways to make things easy for your

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leaders can I just be practical you do not need to text your leaders to do something very easy you

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see a piece of paper on the floor a pastor moe should I fix the chairs you don't have to ask him just

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fix them there's things that are like more important you may need oh is this something that's cool

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for us to do that's different but something that's easy you see a piece of paper on the floor oh

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pass a boy on should I pick up that paper honor goes I want to make it as easy for my leaders as

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possible if there's things that I can handle without them I'll handle it and then I'll just tell

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them I did it you don't got to worry I took care of this oh pastor I know we're raising money for

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a mission trip don't worry I got it I paid for the whole trip that's what honor looks like

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oh they ain't gonna say amen they got quiet on me honor looks like that all right so look let me

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tell you some practical things you can do to honor your leader was this a good word you sure

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y'all you all seem like he's like oh this is cool you are here's the first thing you can do

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to honor your leader first Timothy two two you can pray for them I'm not gonna go through all

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the verses I may highlight some of the verses but the first thing you can do to honor your leaders

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the Bible says for all the kings and all who are in authority that we may live a quiet and

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peaceable life in godliness and reverence look at verse one can we go back to verse one I know

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I'm telling you guys this they're like they he always does this to us the media teams matter

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right now they are that oh two verse one if that's okay sorry guys oh I messed them up wow

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sorry but we're gonna see it once it comes up to verse one your responsibility to your leader

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it basically says to pray for them all right let's just summarize it says to pray for them

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if they're an authority you can trust me yep oh okay no first Timothy first Timothy sorry first

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Timothy to did I say second Timothy I thought it was me again I was like man

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therefore I exhort you first of all that supplications so it tells you different types of prayers

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so universe was a pray one type of way for your leader

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supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all

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who are in authority that we may live a quiet and peaceable life your prayers contribute to your

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leader living a quiet and peaceable life when you pray for him you supplicate you intercede you

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release prayers you open up the door for them to live a quiet because you know the devil's

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one of his main agendas is so that spiritual leaders can live a life of disarray chaos

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disorder lacking peace in trouble with the government in issues at work if they work a second

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job at issues with people contentious with their husband contentious with their wives contentious

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with their children when you pray for them you literally open up a portal so that they can live

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a quiet and peaceable life you know what that does for you they come to the church they and they're

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able to deliver the word with no restrictions they're able to preach with strength and with power

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because of your prayers so the first thing the first way you can honor your leader every day

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Lord I just bring past the boy on before you I bring his wife and his family I cover them with

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the blood of Jesus no attack of the enemy will be able to come near them I pray peace and prosperity

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and blessing over them I speak that he would be a powerful messenger of the gospel and he will

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preach the the word of God with boneness like a lion unleash him into his gifts activate him into

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his calling right pray for your leader so here's some things you could pray you could pray for his

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family finances faithfulness in preaching the word favor you could pray for spiritual force and

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strength health and long life and protection from demonic attacks all right number two this is a

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good one obey and submit to your leader he was 13 17 says obey your leader and submit to them

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for they watch out for your souls that's really deep because the responsibility is not just for

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you it's for your leader their jobs to watch for your soul your jobs to obey so everyone has a

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responsibility and it's a major responsibility before God I don't obey no man that's why you're broke

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I realize in life people who've never had to obey any type of leader most of their lives are

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in chaos and confusion always I every time I've seen especially a man who could never submit to

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another man in leadership that man is always confused and chaotic and poor and his families never

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blessed and he hates his wife and his wife hates him and his children want nothing to do with him

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because there's something about the principle of honoring those who God placed in position where

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God honors you because you honor someone else God could never bring you to the place to the

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forefront until you learn how to honor and bless someone else's vision number three

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and I went way over my time but I feel like this was necessary give you know I come here a lot

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around family so I'm taking my liberty as your uncle to just go overboard and I'll get in trouble

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but it's cool we'll deal with it number three give generously first Timothy 517 it says let the

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elders who who rule well be considered worthy of double honor can I ask you a question do you think

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your pastor does a good job I don't think he does a good job I think he does a great job

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the Bible says if he does a great job he's worthy of double honor look up that word in the Greek right

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that word in the Greek go to blueletterbible.com type in the verse and see what that word double

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honor is in the Greek that word literally means good pay to be paid well your pastor should not

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be struggling your leader should not be struggling they should be blessed and let me tell you he

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came to me he was so overwhelmed he said you know people really blessed me like for my party as

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some of you haven't blessed him yet don't forget I'm throwing it out there he's worth double honor

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which means good pay all right number four if you need to email my email is Nathaniel

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doc saying to Lord I'm giving you my actual email so don't email dumb email me if you have an

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issue see I didn't tell them the rest of the email they're gonna be stuck at hot mail yeah yeah you

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can send me some of my hot mail account I'll make sure I get to it 2045

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number four speak well of them man always have something good to say about you later

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speak well of them honor them with your words you know how valuable that is you know the Bible

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says that you shouldn't even bring an accusation against an elder unless you have two or three

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witnesses why because tarnishing a leader's reputation can literally destroy what that's trying

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to do on the earth so you got to be careful how you speak about your leaders that you know

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the scripture says touch not my anointed ones or do my prophets no harm I know people have used

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that verse and abused it and manipulated it made it seem I'm the king I can do whatever I want

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that's not the scripture saying the scripture saying there's a place of honor and blessing that

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comes when you learn how to honor your your leaders okay think highly of them first Timothy chapter 5

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verse 12 to 13 can we actually look at that one this is what I really like a lot and I want

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us to actually look at the verse first first Cecilonians 5 12 to 13 first Cecilonians

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someone's calling and we urge you brethren to recognize those who labor among you recognize those

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who labor among you recognize those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord

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which means I know people don't like to hear this your pastor is over you you guys are not on

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the same level you're not friends hey boy on what's up I'm just saying to recognize those who

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labor among you and who are over you in the Lord they're not over you in every area in life when

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it comes to the things of the Lord the Lord's place them in your life for a specific reason it says

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and it monitors you this is big language and monitoring someone and to esteem them very highly

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president walks in here whoo everyone's clapping oh they're the greatest make some noise for your

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pastor as esteem them for me my spiritual leaders I have more esteem for them than I do the president

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you want to know why the president is not watching over my soul the president doesn't have a

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spiritual responsibility before the Lord to make sure that I'm good esteem them very highly in love

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for their works sake and be at peace among yourself you want to be at peace honor your leaders

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esteem them highly that's how you're at peace all right these next few I'm just going to go

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quickly because I went way over patting yourself after them first Corinthians 111 and second Timothy

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113 and then I'm going to talk about a couple of honor killers and then one last thing and then

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we're out of here one honor killer familiarity don't become too familiar with your leader you not

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buddy buddy right you can only receive from a source that you honor number two do not gossip and

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slander about them if there's something that you're going to say behind their back make sure it's

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something that you have enough boldness gall to say in their face something anything you would say

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behind their back make sure that you're like it is something I'll say in your face because you

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know we got a lot of keyboard thugs out here Twitter gangsters email thugs they talk a big talk oh yeah

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so that's what true honor is number three don't burn in your leader I said that don't create

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unnecessary stress help them out so they can focus on the word and prayer I want to end with

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this last thing I was reading the story this morning actually I read it this morning it was about

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Noah and his sons and I know this church doesn't typically use that language of spiritual

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father but pastor boy on is your spiritual father amen that's biblical the Bible says we have

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many teachers but we have one father right he's your spiritual father you got to look at the

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story of Noah and his sons after the 40 days they're in the boat the waters subside

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and the scriptures has something very interesting Noah

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uh plants of vineyard and you know what's in the vineyard

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grapes fermented they become

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y'all know too little bit too well I saw y'all at the party you wouldn't even drink it y'all

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was like that's it thank God for the blood for some of these folks

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I'm just kidding something I know how to party I was shocked I was like oh my gosh they seem so

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conservative in church but they be turning up

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he plants a vineyard and he gets high on his own supply

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don't clip that and put it on you too please

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but but but he gets a drunk of his own supply

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and you know the scripture says because I read this a million times and I never saw this

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he did not get drunk outside he got drunk in his his dad so when his son walks in his is like

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his son walked in in his room saw the dad drunk stumbling on his words and naked

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y'all let me come and try to point out his failure his mistake his shortcoming

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everyone look yeah he made this joke I didn't like everyone look he said something that offended me

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everyone look he did something that I didn't agree with everyone look he had his shortcoming

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I was his son ham but his other two sons shaman jaffet when ham came and tried to expose the father

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the bible says they took a covering walked in backwards

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instead of looking at their father's nakedness they wrapped a towel around him

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and they covered him and that's when the Holy Spirit gave me a revelation you know for ham

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it's so messed up 40 days your dad had you covered in an ark that he made

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one momentary slip up and this is for every pastor this is so real that I can do 40 years of

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blessing you I can do 40 years of speaking into your family and telling you how amazing you are

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and giving you money and the church helping you but one momentary slip up oh yeah pastor

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boy he said this look at look what he said on Facebook real sons don't do that real spiritual

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children don't do that real spiritual children walk in backwards and say even if you sent

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something or did something I didn't like I remember the years of blessing my family and speaking

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into my life and I know your heart and I'm going to cover you with love because love covers

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a multitude of so even if you don't say hi to me I'm still going to love you if you step on my

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foot box and I'm still going to love you if you do something I don't agree with I'm still

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going to love you now that's honor I still look at you the same ham was cursed his family was

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cursed his lineage was cursed but shame and Jeff it blessed their lineage blessed their family

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blessed because of the spirit of honor can we just clap our hands and just give god thanks

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for this amazing time can we stand to our feet and just for 10 seconds can we just give god a

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radical praise of thanksgiving for the leaders that he put in our lives thank you Jesus

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thank you Jesus we praise you lord this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any

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part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on janskick and

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in person anytime we would love to connect with you we pray that you have been encouraged today

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that you have been reminded how much god loves you and that you are surrounded by grace thank you

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