Tony Evans: Life is not easy. We all faces challenges. If you ever feel like giving up, today’s message is for you!. In this video, Dr. Tony Evans preaches on how we can have the strength to become an overcomer and what we can do when life gets hard
Today’s message focused on the strength to overcome, how to open doors that need to be opened, and how to put your trust that God can flip things, redeem things or turn them around for your favor when you align your life with His name. Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
and now father as we humbly come before
you through the word not only give us
ears to hear but wills to respond so
that this is not a wasted gathering
we’ve been in carriage we’ve been
inspired but we know what we really need
is to be transformed start with me but
encapsulate us all and we will give and
pay homage to the son in Jesus name we
pray amen when you audit a course in
college what you are saying is I want
the information without the
responsibility I want to learn whatever
the course is seeking to teach but don’t
give me homework and don’t give me exams
I don’t want the work of it I just want
the knowledge about it you may be able
to do that with college but you cannot
do that with the Christian life you
cannot audit it what many people do is
they come to church to hear the word to
be inspired by the word but who don’t
plan to do any of the work they don’t
want to incur any of the
responsibilities of it but they like the
learning about it well in college you
need to know that when you order the
course you don’t get credit for it
because you didn’t put in what the
course required and when you audit the
Christian life by coming to hear the
word to be inspired and encouraged by
the word but to not act on the word that
you’ve heard you may have more knowledge
and you may be more inspired but you
won’t be changed because the
transformation in the life through
word has to be activated by obedience
without that it becomes information with
no credits that is no transforming value
we’re now at the 6th church that the
Apostle John is written the church at
Philadelphia this is the first
Philadelphia the city of brotherly love
this Philadelphia in verse 7 of
Revelation 3 is located some 30 miles
southeast of Sardis a great commercial
city with a major trade route plagued
often with earthquakes that was the
nature of this city inside this city was
a small church a small gathering of
believers Philadelphia Bible fellowship
this small gathering of believers found
themselves in this pagan realm and Jesus
who is the spokesperson through the
Shepard of each one of these churches
speaks through this leader to the Saints
at Philadelphia Bible fellowship at the
church in Philadelphia and notice what
he says verse 7 he who is holy who is
true who has the key of David who opens
and no one will shut and who shuts and
no one opens says this so before we get
into all the idiosyncrasies of what he
has to say to this church he wants to
give another description of himself
which he has done in each of these
churches and he describes himself as he
who is holy and true holy means to be
set apart as unique special or
one-of-a-kind holy means you not be to
be put in a class with anything else I
describe holy often in using the
difference between dishes and the
dishes in the kitchen and dishes in the
dining room the dishes in the sink are
dirty they are dirty dishes that’s why
they’re in the sink the dishes in the
kitchen are common dishes you use that
for all of your meals but the dishes in
the den well they got their own room
they got their own glass case because
they are special they’re not integrated
with the common and they’re certainly
not integrated with the profane the
dirty no there and they that that’s
special they come out on special
occasions Jesus says don’t put me in a
room with anybody else don’t don’t make
me another one of the people you
recognize I’m not just a good person I’m
not just a great prophet I am holy
I am separate I’m one-of-a-kind I am
unique I’m in a class by myself in
Isaiah 40 verse 25 the Bible says God is
holy so when Jesus declares himself to
be holy he declares himself to be God so
we’re not just talking about another
name or one of the crowd he says I am
unique and therefore must be viewed and
treated uniquely I am not only holy I’m
also true truth has to do with ultimate
reality I’m the real deal anything that
contradicts me is false and is a lie and
cannot be trusted
so you are to measure everything by the
truth I am the way the truth and the
life so everything is to be measured by
its inconsistency and compatibility to
me and if it’s incompatible and
inconsistent with me is wrong no matter
who told it to you how long you believed
it and how well you know it I am
truth I am holy and true not only am I
unique and set apart not only am i
ultimate reality but now he gets to the
nitty-gritty he says I have the key of
David I have the key of David now to
appreciate what he’s talking about this
is drawn from Isaiah chapter 22 verses
15 to 25
in Isaiah chapter 22 verses 15 to 25 the
steward of the house of David the
kingdom house of David Davis was the
king of Israel it uses that to speak of
the kingdom the key belonged to this
steward but the steward did not do the
right job so he was fired and when he
was fired a new steward replaced him
this new steward was Alya Kim and Alya
Kim was given the key to the kingdom not
given a key he was given the key Jesus
says I possess the key of the king of
David of the kingdom of David that is I
have the kingdom key notice it’s a
single key because it’s a master key
anybody who possesses a master key can
get any in any door all the doors are
available to him because he has a master
key so when the Bible speaks of the key
it speaks of two things access and
authority so Jesus claims access to any
door and authority over every door let
me say that again Jesus the one with the
key the master key has access to every
door which is what a master key gives
you an authority over every door which
is why he says he can open the doors he
wants to open and lock the doors he
wants to stay locked because he is in
charge now if you and I don’t get that
we don’t think people are in charged
we’re gonna think power brokers are in
charge we gonna think folk with money
are in charge we’re going to think folk
with clothes are in charge they may have
our key but they don’t have the master
key they may have a key to our door they
don’t have a key to every door Jesus
says I control the kingdom because I
have control of the master key or as he
says in Matthew 28 verse 19 he says all
afar
has been given to me not only in the
sweet by and by but in the nasty here
and now he says all authority is given
to me in heaven and on earth to put it
in everyday language I got the key so
I’m in charge I run the show now in
Matthew chapter 16 he says I’m going to
build my church and I will give my
church the keys to the kingdom
watch this now Jesus says I have the
master key that’s one key that can
unlock any door but I’m going to give to
my people the church I’m going to give
them the keys plural to the kingdom so
what he’s given us is multiple keys to
multiple doors while he possesses the
master key to every door so he has the
key we have the keys how does it work
when you use the right key he’ll back it
up
with the master key but when you use the
wrong key
the master key can’t back you up because
the master key can only be consistent
with the keys that he’s given us let me
put it another way if you skip God’s way
to get it done whatever it is you’re
trying to get done then don’t just call
on God to use his master key when you’ve
ignored the key he gave you he does not
want you to skip the responsibility he’s
giving you and simply call on him cuz he
got the master key he wants to know your
keys are consistent with his key I will
give you the keys to the kingdom well
what is that its authority I’m going to
share my authority with you when you are
consistent with me Authority Kingdom
means to rule so God wants to rule not
only in heaven but in history through
the person of Jesus Christ and he
possesses the key see the reason why we
are not seeing more of the master key is
because God is not seeing more of the
use of us using the right
see we go and use the world’s key to
unlock heaven those keys don’t fit in
that lock I share with you before how I
was in New York and I was at the
Marriott hotel and I checked out caught
a plane to Chicago got into the Hilton
Hotel went up 35 floors in the dead of
winter with my luggage freezing outside
I put my key in the lock click click red
light click click red light click click
red light so I’m a little ticked off now
because I didn’t go on up 35 floors cold
outside I catch the elevator down I go
to the registration desk I say excuse me
this key doesn’t work he said cuz that
key doesn’t go to this hotel I’ve
forgotten to throw away my Marriott key
and was using a Marriott key in a Hilton
lock and those kingdoms don’t fit those
those those kingdoms although those keys
don’t fit when you mix and kingdoms and
what Christians do is they mix kingdoms
and wonder why heaven’s door won’t open
cuz God won’t use the King key if you
won’t use Hill key your key must be
consistent with his master key and he
says when God moves when Jesus moves
specifically he opens and closes doors
and he says when he moves with his key
that is with His divine authority he
says when he does that nobody can shut
it ok this ought to do something to you
gets it right there right there right
there let me tell you what I’ll do what
you get it what this means is when
you’re using God’s Keys people do not
have the last say so
mmm see that see we get all shook up
about people oh he got the power to let
me in or to lock me out he got the power
to raise me or to put me down he’s got
the power she’s got the power to fire me
or hire me they got the power they got
all the power
jesus said but I got the master key and
when I opened the door I don’t care who
they are where they come from how much
they have what degrees they possess when
I have the key if I decide to open that
door nobody go shut the door I open and
if I decide to lock them up they not
gonna be able to get back in cuz I’m in
charge here I’ve got the key to the
kingdom see we fear the wrong folk we
fear folk cuz they got a name we fear
folk cuz they got some money we fear
folk because they got some power but you
are related to the one who’s got the key
of David ultimate authority final say-so
so ease you know you ever been into a
prison two for one reason or another
you know they got these pods now these
elevated pods whether the gods sit and
they got all these keys to let folk in
or to block folks out the world wants to
hold you hostage and Jesus says but I
got the key to every cell I got the key
to every door so it’s the one with the
key who determines it in it if you don’t
get that and if I don’t get that
we’ll run around like chickens with our
heads cut off trying to get folk to do
what folk may or may not be willing to
do when you suppose another one who’s
got the master key to any door that you
have to deal with yeah we got to
understand who we dealing with here he
says I possess the keys so what’s the
problem he says in verse eight I know
your deeds behold I have put before you
an open door which no one can shut
because you have little power and have
kept my word and have not denied my name
Oh watch it in order for his key to work
for you for me and for his church he
says you must have kept my word obeyed
me and not denied my name
so one of the reasons many believers are
not seeing God come through is because
they do not keep his word they click on
the church and hear it
but they do not keep his word and or
they deny his name they don’t want to be
publicly associated with him he says to
them you have little power that means
this is a small church that doesn’t have
big names doesn’t have notoriety people
doesn’t have highly educated folk
doesn’t have a bunch of rich rich Saints
sitting in the sanctuary he says you
have little power you not all added a
bag of chips people don’t know who you
are they don’t appreciate who you are
they don’t respect who you are you don’t
have what people view as substantive
significant and worth applauding
but he says I have set before you an
open door
even though folks say you are nothing
and a nobody I have set before you an
open door and when I open this bad boy
up for you the folk with the name with
the money with the power will not be
able to shut it but the way I will open
the door and the reason I will open the
door for you your life your world in
your ministry is because you have obeyed
my word and have not denied my name
see we got folk what in the God opened
doors when they while they disobey him
we got one guard to open doors
while they are ashamed to bear his name
notice you can’t deny his name you can
talk about God all you want you can talk
about God this and God that that’s not
his name his name is the Lord Jesus
Christ the second person of the Trinity
not this generic God no no yeah God is
there but God has bequeathed or
delegated everything to his son it is at
the name of Jesus every knee bow and
every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord
to the glory of the Father
so if folk don’t know your relationship
to Jesus you have denied his name even
though you may be talking about God
bless you all day long you ever did not
denied my name
Jesus says when you deny me on earth I
will deny you before my father who is in
heaven when you confess me on earth I
will confess you before my father who is
in heaven so if you are ashamed of Jesus
Christ and don’t want to be publicly
associated with him forget open doors
you can open your own door
and that’s why we get so messed up cuz
we round here trying to get folk to open
up the door create the opportunity make
their connection give us the money and
we do it all this to open up doors and
Jesus is sitting there with a master key
and and if you’ve never seen God give
you an open door to see you to miss
something if you’ve never seen God swing
something open it look like it was
closed and see if you’ve never seen him
come through when there was no way Jose
if you’ve never seen him intervene in
your circumstances then you have not
experienced the authority of Christ to
overrule particularly if you were of
little power now you didn’t have the
wherewithal you didn’t have the context
you didn’t have the money you didn’t
have the education you didn’t have the
notoriety but you had him sometimes
around the church people I don’t know
will be around and and maybe the
custodial staff is not around and they
need to get in to someplace legitimately
and they’re running to me I don’t I
don’t I don’t I don’t know their name
I’m not familiar with them for just
because of the number of people and
they’ll say well pastor can I get can I
get in this room to do something
legitimate whatever it is well I got a
master key I got a master key
and even though they’re unknown they
know me
so even though they unknown and it’s
legitimate and they know me because I
got a master key I can open up a door
when either folk on around I can open up
a good Jesus says folk may not know who
you are but you know him you confess him
you obey him he got a master key and
nothing will make the Lord more real to
you
then he when he opens things up you were
too powerless to open up on your own
because you had little power little
notoriety little name recognition season
that’s why the the greatest people in
our congregation are not necessarily the
people with masters and Doctorate
degrees not necessarily the folks with
Mercedes and Benzes and and Lincoln’s
and what-have-you they said no it’s not
necessarily the folk who who got the
six-figure plus incomes nothing wrong
with any of those things in and of
themselves but but you have to need to
know the most powerful people are people
of little power who know him and who
advertise his name because they have
access to a master key now the upscale
folk can do that too but he says you of
little power but you have access to me
that’s why I would suggest from me and
for us no matter what position you hold
money you have or influence you will
keep yourself small
folk maybe whispering in your Hill you
all that and a bag of chips don’t
believe it
you better keep yourself small in the
eyes of God pride coming before the fall
you better keep yourself small don’t
don’t think you all that cuz cuz pride
cometh before the fall and and you need
to understand that humility is a big
deal to God that you are you don’t view
yourself that way now other folk maybe
write you out but but but but how you
think about you you better keep yourself
small because Jesus says even though you
have little power I’m gonna open up a
door for you
because you have obeyed me and you have
not denied my name
if God has blessed you praise God if God
has given you a great job bless God if
God has given you a big house bless God
that God has given you a nice car plants
car God has given you a great clothes
bless God just so long as you know you
know better than the widow on fixed
income because God will open doors for
those with little power so it’s okay if
we’re blessed just don’t become elite
now become gonna become big-headed
think think you all that know uh on our
best day when we’ve been blessed the
best you are sinner saved by grace
that’s all your best day I’m a sinner
saved by grace
on my best day don’t you ever forget
that because if you never forget that
then you don’t look down on people who
don’t have your education your money
your job your career your house you
don’t look down on anybody
cuz you may be looking down on somebody
who has access to a master key so you
have little power but I have opened up a
door and I’ve opened up a door for two
reasons you obey me and you don’t deny
me see cuz cuz when you when you get a
lot of power then you get
self-sufficient you know we have this
tendency we all do to get
self-sufficient I can make it on my own
I got V then MasterCard American Express
I can I can make it on my own
I know people okay if you know Jesus
Christ you know somebody you know people
and he says and I open the door and
nobody will shut the door I open I don’t
care what the name is and how much power
they wheel and how much money they have
he says in verse nine behold I you have
kept the word of my perseverance and I
will also keep you from the hour of
testing the hour that is about to come
upon the whole world he told him verse
nine behold I’ve caused those in the
sanction synagogue of Satan who say
there are Jews and are not but lie I
will make them come and bow down at your
feet and make them know that I have
loved you whoa he said all those false
folk out there synagogue of Satan they
go to church synagogue but they love the
devil because just don’t discuss you in
church synagogue doesn’t mean you love
the Lord
there is a synagogue of satan all right
so so the religious talk doesn’t mean a
thing he says but i’ma let them know
that I have loved you even though you
got a little power imma let them know
you got more power than you look like
you have maybe you remember the story
about a big dog and little puppy German
Shepherd in a poodle German Shepherd of
the poodle was standing at a door
standing at the door and big dog the
Shepherd looked at the pewter poodle and
say you you little puppy you can’t you
can’t do much look how small you are
look how short you are you know you got
that little little little little girl
Bob I’m big dog big dog say look at this
door I wonder how long it would take you
to get open this door cuz I could open
this door I can open this door quickly
because I’m big and I can reach the knob
you can’t even reach the knob
in fact let’s have a contest let’s see
who can open the door the quickest
little puppy said okay you go first big
dog big dog you go first German Shepherd
jumped up on the door got his mouth
around the novel and put his foot his
put his mouth all around the knob and
started twisting at the knob and after
about two and a half minutes of working
the knob he got the door open then he
pulled his shutting he said beat that a
little puppy cuz big dog then shown you
you can’t even reach the knob yo turn
little puppy came up to the door gave a
small box
scratch the door the man on the inside
came and opened
cuz see when you know who’s on the
inside you ain’t got to go through all
that screw around so don’t don’t let it
bother you if you’re a little puppy cuz
if you know the law he’s got the key and
he can open up what the big dogs can’t
help you with say you got you got the
synagogue of Satan and they messing with
you they calling you holier than thou
they think they think they they they say
oh you wanted him Bible people and you
you you got you bring up Jesus all the
time and you got you wanted in the end
they can make you feel bad he says in
the synagogue of Satan it’s making it
tough for you but I can keep watches I
can keep you from the hour of testing
he calls it you and a test watch this so
if you in a situation and the door has
not yet opened he says consider it a
test and he says and I’m gonna walk you
through the test until I reverse it he
says I’m gonna make your enemies your
footstool who nothing makes God real
than when he reverses the irreversible
nothing makes God more real than when he
flips something and look unflappable
nothing made God so powerful to you when
there was no way out you were trapped
the devil was looked like he was running
the whole show and then he reverses it
but you may say but but I don’t see him
doing anything oh yeah well look at the
next verse he says you going through
this test and I’m gonna keep you through
this hour but I am coming quickly oh
fast what you have so that nun no one
will take your crown oh I love this word
I am coming quickly
that means suddenly that means
unexpectedly
that means out of nowhere see when God
is silent that doesn’t mean he’s still
I know you don’t see him doing anything
I know it looks like you just waiting
for nothing but God likes to come in
suddenly
he likes to break in when you didn’t
expect it when you didn’t think there
was any way that this thing could ever
get better that this trial could ever
end he loves to do something suddenly
and the reason why you like to do things
quickly or suddenly and so that when it
happens there is no debate on who caused
it to take place cuz it it came out of
nowhere quickly you wonder where did
that come from and it becomes
inextricably clear that this was heaven
invading history because God wants to
join a favorite R&B group so that when
you have seen him come through suddenly
you can start singing that song didn’t
blow your mind this time didn’t I
he wants to blow your mind and so boom
he comes through suddenly he says and I
will come quickly so don’t worry about
it if you don’t have all the degrees and
if you don’t have all the money you
don’t have all the prestige and you have
all the power and people don’t applaud
you when you walk into the room don’t
worry about it
just obey Him don’t deny his name and
then wait for the Lord I say wait upon
the Lord because he comes suddenly and
once you have this perspective you’re
free because you know them people don’t
have the last say they have a say they
don’t have the say they look like they
run in the show until God swoops in on
them and changes them or changes their
mind or changes you or changes the
circumstances it’s like it’s like that
time the folks we were getting our
church the folks told us we couldn’t
meet in the school anymore
we didn’t have a place to go they were
going to vote whether they want to let
us stay or to put us out God calls there
to be an accident on the freeway so the
people who are going to vote against
those who arrive in the same car
couldn’t get off the off-ramp and when
the council couldn’t wait for them any
longer
they voted without them we won five to
four soon as the vote was over they came
rushing in it was too late
because god over over over turn that
thing and if you if you’ve never seen
God do that if you don’t know what God
can do then you then you just live in
the you’re just living with base on what
man can do and then you not have the
final say-so that’s why that’s why you
free you free your free people don’t get
the final word cuz they don’t have a
master key to your life to your world to
your family they don’t they don’t
control it he says I have the master key
that must be your perspective
perspective is everything it’s like the
Tanna Montana put out a thing for
catching wolves and they were they were
gonna pay $5,000 for any trapper who
caught it with $5,000 per wolf
Sam and Jed decided to go wolf hunting
in because that’s five thousand dollars
of work so they went wolf hunting in
Montana they put up their tent they got
in their tent because the next day they
were going home for some wolves to get
five thousand dollars a wolf
they go to sleep Jed wakes up first in
the morning when Jed wakes up there are
50 wolves hungry wolves
surrounding their tent with blood-red
eyes with with saliva dripping down the
side of their mouth with them growling
and no sharp key 50/50 wolves right
there at their tent hungry wolves
Jeb woke up Sam said Sam Sam get up Sam
say what Jeb said we’re rich see it all
depends on your perspective it it all
depends on how you see things
I know the devil may be nipping at you
the synagogue of Satan may be nipping at
you but when you’ve got God’s
perspective it changes what you’re
looking at so I’m coming quickly i’ma
come suddenly so what did he tell you to
do in verse 11 hold fast
hold fast don’t I know you want to give
up I know you want to quit I know you’re
tired he says how fast make sure you’re
obeying and not denying you do you hold
fast to your obedience and non denial
and at his time suddenly don’t let him
take your crown that’s the right to rule
even small folk had been called a rule
and now he gives us his final statement
he who overcomes overcomes what the
tendency to give up he who overcomes
the tendencies to stop obeying and to
stop denying he who overcomes that and
says God as the old folks say I’m a hold
on to my change come you know as ruff is
tough but I believe you and not my
circumstances as the final arbiter of my
situation
he says you hold on he who overcomes
look at this I will make him a pillar in
the temple of my god he will not go out
from it any more I will write on him the
name of my god and the name of the city
of my god the New Jerusalem which comes
down out of heaven from my god and my
new name you see the word dead with name
name name name name first of all he says
I’m gonna make you a pillow a pillow it
holds a building up I’ll make you a
pillar in my temple a temple is God’s
house the pillars are located in God’s
house Galatians 2:9 says that Peter
James John with a pillar of the church
they were they were holding up the
church in other words he speaks of these
people who overcome that the propensity
to give up as being in closest proximity
to God and he says for these folk who
are overcomers and who are in close
proximity to God they will have a name
and it keeps in neatly name name name
name name name in that in verse in verse
12 over and over again it keeps on a
name of this and name of that name it is
a name of that he says you will have a
name in the New Jerusalem let’s get
something straight everybody is not
equal in heaven okay let’s get this
straight okay you can have a 40-watt
bulb a 60 watt bulb or a 75 watt bulb in
your house 100 watt bulb in your house
150 watt bulb in your house now all of
them are bulbs and all of them will
light to their capacity but everybody’s
capacity isn’t the same a 40 watt can’t
give you 100 watts because it’s not
established to be able to produce like
that well all Christians are Christians
but they don’t have the same watts and
so they don’t exude the same
experience because they don’t have the
same relationship jesus said in Saint
John chapter 2 verses 23 to 25 it says
many believed on him many believed on
him but he would not commit himself to
them because he knew what was in them
they got saved but they had not yet got
committed they were on their way to
heaven but he couldn’t use him on earth
they were forgiven for their sins
but they didn’t want folk to know that
they were Christians they went to church
but they wouldn’t obey the word so they
believed in him but he would make no
commitment to them there are a lot of
Christians who Jesus is just not deeply
committed to in a practical way because
they want to be 40 white Christians
expecting a hundred white blessing and
it doesn’t work that way he wants to
know that you’re all in that you’re a
full-time Christian not a part-time
Saint he wants to know that you do will
not deny him and that you will obey what
he has commanded and he says to that one
I will give him a name you know when you
when people go to the cowboy game and
they go to the cowboy game that folks
who are sitting in the stands we don’t
know their name now they’re in the
location but we don’t know their name in
fact that’s the majority of the folk who
are in the building the majority of the
folk in the building are in the stands
and they’re just part of the crowd and
we don’t know their names now when it
comes to the players we know their names
kind of sorta because if I were to ask
you to name the name of the right god
many of you couldn’t do that if I asked
you to name the name of the punter many
of you couldn’t do that because even
though they have a name cuz they’re on
the team you may not know the name
because of the position that they play
but now when we upgrade and start
talking about wide receivers and
quarterbacks and running backs well you
know those names because those names
have achieved a greater name implicitly
because of the role they play on the
team but then now
only do you have the folk in the crowd
and the folks on the team some more
nameless than others some with a higher
name you got the Ring of Honor in the
ring honor those are folk who made a
name you see the players come and go but
the folks in the Ring of Honor stay
there
cuz overtime they held fast overtime
they played the game overtime they
didn’t quit when they were injured
overtime they stay committed to the task
in fact that name is not only in the
ring honor that name is in Canton Ohio
in a bust in the Canton Hall of Fame so
they generation after generation will
know who that name was God has a lot of
Christians in fact Oh cliff has a lot of
Christians that are in the stands they
just show up to watch the game all they
want to see is what the choir is singing
and what the preacher is preaching and
they just come for the show now folk in
the crowd don’t get dirty don’t incur
responsibility don’t get knocked down
don’t get blocked don’t get tackled cuz
they’re not there to participate they’re
just there to watch the show but then
there are some folk in the kingdom of
God and it Oh cliff who don’t want to
just stay in the stands they want to get
on the field they serve in ministry they
help other people they give to the
Advancement of the cause of the Lord and
then you got some superstars those are
the Ring of Honor’s oh it’s not just the
focus people who you know their name its
folk who are the unknown folk but you
can count on them you can depend on them
because they are forever
holding their role loving the Lord
serving the saints giving to the Lord
and giving glory in their witness for
the Lord so I want to challenge you
today if you want God to put you in the
Ring of Honor if you want when he hears
you and sees you to say well done my
good and faithful servant if you want
him to call you out of the crowd
and that all of heaven know you’re one
of his choices servants I challenge you
to leave the stands to come on the field
now I want to tell you the truth you’re
gonna get blocked a little bit on the
field you will get tackled a little bit
on the field but when they start handing
out Super Bowl rings you’re gonna get a
Super Bowl ring cuz you were a Super
Bowl safe so let’s get busy glorifying
the Lord obeying the Lord not denying
the Lord because if you are an obedient
safe who does not deny him you are and
over come on let’s stand to our feet
amen