Kingdom Clout Part 1

Matthew twenty twenty is the verse I want to start with today, And let me read this in its entirety, and then come along and preach behind it and give you a little bit along and along, Matthew twenty verse twenty. Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and kneeling down as the favor of him. What is it you want, he asked, and she said, grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left

in your kingdom. You do not know what you are asking, Jesus said to them, can you drink the cup I am going to drink? We can? They answer, that's kind of cocky, you know we can. And Jesus said to them, you will indeed drink from my cup, But to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belonged to those for whom they have been prepared by my father. And when the ten heard about this,

they were indignant with the two brothers. Jesus called them together and said, you know that the rulers of the gentiles lorded over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first, must be your slave, just as the Son of Men did not come to be served, but to and to give his life as a ransom

for many. Amen. What a fascinating little story. What a great place to talk about this subject of kingdom clout And before I forget this, Holly said it stressed her out last night because I didn't give a title for the message. She said, she couldn't hardly listen to me or notice how attractive I look in this red track jacket because I didn't give a title. So for those OCD Saints, this is Kingdom Clout Part one. You good, Let's go. My series ideas don't come from brainstorming sessions.

They come from conversations. And my favorite person to talk to about the sermons that I'm going to preach is not Bishop TD Jakes. He's my favorite preacher. I heard a rumor he might be coming to preach for our anniversary, but he's not my favorite per to talk to about my sermons. When I really want to talk about a sermon, I love to talk to my fourteen year old, my firstborn son, Elijah dash Beats on YouTube Thirdy. He is insightful. He helps me to understand concepts really through his eyes.

That and he has such a great way of getting excited about what I'm preaching. He gets it quick before I even tell him what I'm going to preach. It's like we have this thing and he gets it. And my best sermons that I ever preached came from me talking to him. If I track them back, even if I go to on YouTube. The highest sermons that people watch and say it helped me came from talking to him and don't get any ideas that I'm gonna start

giving you a cut or anything like that. But I really appreciate you earning your keep around the house because when you think about the ages of our children, it may help you to understand the subjects that I choose for my messages fourteen, twelve, and eight. Having a brilliant fourteen year old son affords you the ability to relive parts of your life through their eyes and really to give them advice that you didn't take when you were their age, either to tell them things you know that

they need to do that you didn't do. And so when Elijah started talking to me about clout cloud chasers and how people do anything for clout, I think he was quoting Offset or one of the other theologians from those three Apostles, but he was saying, how you know cloud chasing because listen, how many of y'all are like me, you're thirty eight years old or older. Things are so different now for kids, they really are, like these days, kids are really obsessed with popularity. It's different than it

was when we were kids. You know, we were focused on serving God and making a difference in our world. These days, kids will do anything for clout. They're driven and obsessed by what people think about them. They spend their time trying to prove stuff to people who aren't

even paying attention. It's different than it is. Wait a minute, you know, for all of us who have ever said something stupid like you shouldn't care what people think about you, that is the worst advice that you could ever give. Please care what people think about you. Please brush your teeth, Please wear the odoran, please smile, please be nice. It's okay to care what people think about you, is not okay to be controlled by what people think about you.

In Matthew Chapter twenty, Jesus has just finished giving his disciples two consecutive lessons on the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God was not a new concept, but Jesus was the first one who called it that. In Matthew's Gospel, you'll see the phrase the Kingdom of the heavens. Because the Jewish audience that Matthew was writing to would be offended if he used the name of God. It was not to be spoken, so he referenced it in a more abstract way, the Kingdom of the heavens. You'll see

it in other Gospels. The Kingdom of God. It was preached about over one hundred times through the mouth of Jesus. But he didn't just preach about it. He demonstrated it everywhere he went. He taught the Kingdom of God, not so much that they could learn it by principle, but so that they could observe it by demonstration. How many know a good sermon is one you can see and hear, and Jesus did just that. He would teach it, and

then he would do it. He would talk about it, and then he would transformatively heal or bless or forgive. And he was demonstrating everywhere he went this Kingdom of God. It was not the kingdom that his disciples expected. It was not a kingdom that delivered them from Roman oppression. That's what they wanted, that's what they prayed for. And you could make the case that for the twelve disciples that he chose, they signed up to see his kingdom come.

They signed up that they could witness his kingdom, But when they saw it, they almost missed it because they were looking for something so different than what he came to bring that it was right in front of them, but they were looking past to something in the future that Jesus did not even intend to bring, which was political deliverance, which was an economic deliverance, which was a military reign or rule. But Jesus came to preach the

Kingdom of God. This particular instance in the ministry of Jesus did not happen at the beginning, but it was just before his ministry would start to come to a close on Earth. The Bible says that this mother of Zebede's sons came to Jesus with their sons and kneeling down, asked the favor of him. I think the most profound question is the one that Jesus asked next. And the question sounds simple on the surface, but let's take a moment and think about it. As a new year begins,

Jesus asked this mother, what is it you want? What is it you want? We all have a list, but usually in church we are taught to downplay our desires and to pray prayers that we don't really mean because they sound good, but they're plastic. What I admire about this mother in the passage is that she got honest with Jesus and said, I want my boys to have vip seating in your kingdom. Don't you love somebody who

will be honest about what they want. Don't you ever have people who call you on the phone and you just want to tell them cut the crap and tell me what you want. I know you're not calling to check on me. You never do. Do you need twenty dollars I'll cash ap you just to get off this phone right now? What do you want? Or even with my kids, you know, I love being a dad, but when they're being too nice, there's something behind it. How was your day, dad? Okay, you can have more video

game time, blah blah blah blah blah. Well you want, let's just get to it. But Jesus is asking the question not on the level of inconvenience, like what do you want? Because everything the woman is doing, this mother of Zebede's sons, is on the surface exactly what you should do. Let's look at it real quick. She comes to Jesus, that's what you're supposed to do. I think I don't know where else to go. How many have something in your life that people can't do for you

and only God can do for you? And the only way you're gonna get it is. God gets it to you when you come to him. That's why I came to church to get something from God. I didn't come here to hear the same thing I hear on the news that the world has falling apart. I came for a gospel message, that there's something greater than who sits in an office, that there is a kingdom that cannot be saken. Have we gotta access. I'm sorry trying to pace myself. So she came to Jesus. She came to

the right person. She knelt before him, she had the right place posture, she brought her sons, she had the right priorities. What parent doesn't want their kids to go to the best school. But this takes helicopter Mom to a whole new level, because these boys are thirty years old, still setting up play dates, and they got a beard. And these disciples, these are not just any disciples. I want to show you something. Can I show you something?

I'm gonna do it anyway. Mark Chapter three. The Bible gives an indication of who Jesus chose when he came to set up his kingdom. Notice this, the Kingdom of God had already been established, but it had never been reflected in human form. And so when Jesus got ready to show what the Kingdom of God looked like, he could have come looking like thor he could have come looking like Dwayne Johnson. He could have come with biceps.

But he came as a baby. That's fascinating to me to know that when he wanted to show us the kingdom, he started with the ultimate emblem of weakness. He did not start with deliverance. He started with diapers. Because everything God brings into your life will come in a small form. It will seem insignificant in the beginning stages. That's why you can't despise the day of small beginnings. You gotta

celebrate some baby steps this year. You got to realize God is working in my life even if people don't see it. To celebrate it. People don't know to celebrate what they can't see. So celebrate yourself for a moment that you came to church on this weekend to get a word from God. I said, celebrate yourself that you came to church this weekend. I need you to know that Jesus picks people who have problems. Peter Andrew, James and John look at this passage in Mark three. And

I still haven't gotten over this. So if I read it slow is to keep from getting choked up, because I am someone who struggles a lot of times with believing that God chose me. And when I read this about how Jesus was calling his disciples to establish his kingdom, he didn't go to a seminary. He went to the sea found four fishermen. The first four Peter, Andrew, James,

and John. And it says that in March three, in such a beautiful way, that Jesus went up on a mountain side and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve, designating them apostles, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons. I said, to have authority, not just to get attention. We live in a time where people don't know the difference between attention and authority. Can I

preach like I'm sixty five. It's embarrassing to me that we have created a generational perspective that doesn't know the difference between greatness and fame, And now it's coming up in a time and if you don't believe me, grabs somebody that looks like they're younger than you and ask them, would you rather be rich or famous? Don't even put God in the question, save that for later. Would you rather have money or followers? And if they really get

honest about what they want, they will tell you. It is a culturally pervasive issue of our day and it's the devil and is short sighted. And I came to preach about it. And I'm not salty, but I am serious. Everybody famous isn't great, and you're ready. Everybody great ain't famous, So somebody on your row might be great and you don't even know their name. I came to preach about Kingdom Cloud. I have a name that's registered in heaven. My name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

And I might not have Alu, but he set his red blood for me and I'm his. But I'm getting ahead of myself. This is a five week series, and I gotta go slow. It said he chose them to be with him and to preach. He chose them to be with him and to preach. When we meet somebody, we identify them by what they do. Hey, I'm Jerry, I'm Stephen. What do you do? He called them notice the order, to be with him and to preach, so that what they do would flow out of who they were.

But when you define who you are by what you do, it's shaky ground. So before he called them to do it, he called them to be it, and real kingdom authority from knowing who you are, whose you are, and not allowing this crazy world to define you by what you do, what you have, what you wear. So let me tell you somebod didn't tellhim last night. There was a preacher that was talking to me the other day about my shoes. He didn't ask me anything about a sermon, exegesis, insight

from the text, or the Holy Ghost. He wanted to know about sneakers. How about these? How about those? I said, Man, I don't know. Most of the stuff I wear somebody gave to me. I don't even know what it's called. And now half of it's an Elijah's closet because he's my size, and I don't even get to wear it before he steals it. And it bothered me because when we started the church, Hollywood, go buy me button down

a shirt because I had a superition. Every weekend. I wanted to wear something new, but we didn't have any money, so she would find a two ninety nine clearance at Dillers. But I was proud of it because when I would put it on and i'ld give myself a haircut, and I didn't know how to fade my hair, I only had one guard on the thing. I didn't know how to fade. I didn't know how to dress. I didn't

know how to do anything. But I was called anointed, appointed, passionate, fired up, charged up, I was, I was, I was, I was set apart. And what I wanted you to know. I was so proud of those three dollar shirts from dollars. I was anointed in those three dollars shirts from Dillers. See, when you really got something from God, it is not about externals. The external is fine, but it is the spirit of God that makes you gring. It is not an income level. It is not a number of followers.

It is not clicks and comments and all this crap that the world calls cloud. When you have a father who is in heaven, who knows your name, who chose you, who called you, you can do what you gotta do because it's in you. And he called to him those he wanted. Did you see that he called those he wanted? He called those he wanted because God has options. There's a difference between having clout and being chosen clout. People can give it, they can take it away. Josennah, Josnnah,

crucify him within a seventy two hour period. They will change their mind. Oh God, they'll change their mind. But when you're called and chosen, he called Look at verse thirteen, those he wanted. What does it feel like to be wanted like that? See how happy you get? See? God has options. Sometimes you don't be honest. Sometimes you hang out with people because they were the only one available. Sometimes you hire somebody because they were the best available candidate.

You make it work. God looks for exactly what he wants. And I don't mean to get biological, but he fertilizes the right egg at the right moment. Do you realize the percentage chance of you being being born when you were born to do what you do? And you're gonna walk around in self doubt trying to figure out if God chose you. You ought to know. God shows you you ought to believe God shows you, and you ought to go through your light with your head held high,

no matter what is in your bank account. Because I'm so sick. Where's Eric? I know he had to sit in the back today because something. Yeah, he used to always tell them, because they would make fun of him for being adopted when we were in high school. And he say, my parents picked me, yours got stuck and shut him up real quick too. My father picked me.

He wanted you in the earth right now, and he wanted you short, or he wanted you tall, or he wanted you to have experienced this set of circumstances or the other. And he got what he wanted, and he called what he wanted. He called what he wanted beautiful. Man. Let's stay in it for a moment. Sometimes we rush past stuff too quick. Who did he choose? It lists them, It lists them, It listened them. No, I'm talking about the twelve Disciples, not you right now. Uh, it gives

a list. These are the twelve. Everybody say, twelve twenty two minutes to do this, y'all pray for me. All right, we'll pick it up next week. I'll do what I can do this week. Clear the parking lots so we don't have any fistfights, and then we'll come back next week. Come every week for the series. We're gonna build on it. We're gonna build on this. Don't come to me like once every four weeks and then wonder why you don't

get any stronger. I'm gonna need you to come regularly so we can build on this, and then we can get it in with repetition to talk about the Kingdom of God. It's always invisible to the human eye, it's always insignificant to the human mind, and it is always immediate. It's right now. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. That was the first message Jesus preached. He said, repent, change your mind medanoia in the Greek for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And when he established his kingdom,

he chose certain candidates, and he chose twelve. He chose twelve, and he appointed those he wanted. He made you her mom, he made you her daughter. He put you in that. He let you have that because he believes in you that much. He called those he wanted, and who did he want, Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter. You may know him for his profanity more than for his preaching, because he was cussing when Jesus was about to go to the cross. That's the first round draft

pick two. People never pick correctly. People never do. They never picked Tom Brady first. People never know what they're looking for. People never see what's inside. And people will celebrate all the wrong stuff. People will celebrate when you lose weight, Wow, you've lost weight, but keep it off. They won't say anything. Who we don't celebrate consistency. You know another thing about people. I'm getting into week two already.

They will celebrate a talent or a gift, but not effort because we're crazy, because we need Grammys and Academy awards and compliments from people who are insecure themselves. And then if they don't give us a compliment, we don't think we did anything. But it's their insecurity that kept them from giving a compliment, not anything deficient in us. And people don't know what to celebrate. Even in a

good sermon, people clap at the wrong times. And so when Jesus was choosing, he chose on the basis of something that he could see that they couldn't. And so the scripture says he chose Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter. He liked the nickname people. Everybody in our family has a nickname. I don't call any of my kids by their real name. And they don't even call me dad. They call me much. And it's a long story. I don't have time to explain it. But

Jesus started that. He called people stuff that he knew they were, that they didn't know yet. So he'll call you righteous while you're still struggling with addiction. So he'll call you an influencer when nobody else knows your name. So he will call you great when the world will trample over you to get what they think is great. And he called those he wanted, and he called them to be with him. And when he called them, he called Simon and he said, you're Peter petross Rock. Youre's

something I can build on. Here's something I can build on. Then he called James, son of Zebedee, the one from Matthew twenty. Remember he chose him and his brother John. You may recognize him because he had a whole gospel called John. Not a trick question. You'll think I'm messing with you. He wrote the Gospel of John, and he always called himself the disciple Jesus loved. That's not what Jesus called him. Look what Jesus called him, James son

of Zebede, and his brother John. To them, he gave the name bo and air jes That's Greek for hot tempered. It also means disturbance. He called them that, and then he still chose them. Who in here struggles with something like a temper or an issue. I swear your wife is gonna raise your hand for you if you don't get it up real quick. I'm trying to spare you some embarrassment. How many of you struggle with something? And God can look right past what people trip over and say,

come on, go with me. We've got a job to do. I know you don't see it. I know you don't feel it. But the Kingdom of God is at hand, Yes, Lord, booing energies, which means sons of thunder. That's a nice translation. That's a nice translation. And so these boys they follow Jesus for three years. They left their father's fishing business, which was successful. I know it was successful because when he called them, they had hired men helping them Zebedee their dad. He had servants on the boat, so they

left something where they had servants to become servants. Kingdom clout, when you stop worrying about what looks good to people because you want to be right with God. Kingdom Cloud. We need this message, man, our children need it. We need it. We're still teenagers dressing for everybody else, spending for everybody else. And then the credit they're not there to pay off the credit card, and they didn't even notice that we wore it. Jesus said, what do you

want now? Remember what they've seen. They've seen miracles, they've heard sermons, they've seen his compassion, and they've seen his How should I say this other side? When he flipped over the tables in the temple because they had started making it about clout rather than kingdom, he didn't like that. He didn't like that exclusivity where it's like, these kind of people are the people God can use and these can't because they're this and they're that. He didn't like that,

and he taught them and showed him. But then just before the last week of his life, James and John and their mom come to Jesus and they're like ah, we want you to give us VP seed in the kingdom. At least that's how I always read it. But I realized something that it wasn't just important what they asked for. Listen to me. You can't understand what they ask unless

you understand when they asked it. Okay. And the verses just before the verses that I read you where this mom comes up to Jesus and kneels down and says, I want my boys to be okay, He had just for the third time told them about his death. They didn't want to hear it because it meant that in order for God to bring about what they wanted him to bring about, they would have to go through what they didn't want to go through. And when he talked about the Cross, he did it in dramatic language, but

they couldn't hear it. They didn't want to hear it. They rejected it. They rejected that message because it did not fit with their expectation of what the kingdom would be. When God does something in our life that does not conform with our expectation of how we wanted him to work, we will tend to reject it. When someone that God wants to use is raised up in our life that we don't we don't really have different values than the world because we think that in order for the Gospel

to go forward, we need celebrities to get saved. That's that's the kingdoms of this world, not the kingdom of our God. God calls the known and the unknown. And I need to preach this message because just Friday, I went to Cheesecake Factory. It's been a minute since I did that, and one reason I quit going is the menu gives me a panic attack. It's so big. It's like, y'all remember Encyclopedia Britannica. The menu is like chapter seven, verse three on the Yeah. So, but after we ordered,

and let me tell you, were talking about choosing. You got options at Cheesecake Factory, seventeen different kinds of ways to die early and all of that. But we finished eating. We were sitting there a moment and I was telling Elijah Kingdom Cloud, I'm so excited. He's like me too, it's gonna be awesome. What's gonna be the first message? And the server not the one that had taken care of us during the meal, but somebody I had noticed a few times and we both talked about it. He

just had something special about him. Both of us noticed, and he came over and said, I don't want to disturb you, but this meal I've been the whole time. I thank you. He said that our messages have helped him, encouraged him, and somehow he thought that would bother me to tell me that. I was like, oh, man, thank you, so thank you. Man. That means the world really does. And he went to walk away. He's like, I don't want to bother I said, nook, come on, what was

your name? He said his name? He said, my name is Mike, but I'm nobody. And I said something to him just to say no man. And then and then after he left, I totally jo I was like, that's why I got to preach this, because most everybody feels that way. Play me off if you want to. I know. That's the same thing you walk around telling yourself I'm nobody. I'm nobody, because y'all will have the nerve to say stuff to me like this. Like one woman in the church said the other day, she said, I'm just to

stay at home mom. If you ever say something like that to me, I will find the nearest elevation pin and throw it at your forehead like a death star. Stop saying stuff like that. You are just a what if you are a stay at home mom. Let's do the man. You are a doctor, a lawyer, an uber, a UFC referee, if you got more than one of them. I'm not just a nothing. Oh that wasn't good grammar, but it felt like God. I'm not just a student. I'm not just a teenager. I'm not just a woman.

I'm not just a nothing. Get your hands off my calling devil. He called who he wanted. He shows me for it. I'm important because he made me. You don't have to know my name. I know a name that is above every name, kingdom in the kingdom. I'm somebody in the kingdom. I have a father. He knows every hair on my head. Robert, that don't take much for you. He knows when I'm hungry. He knows when I'm thirsty. He knows what I secretly wish I had, And if we will get honest about it. When he said what

do you want? We really all want the same things. There's only two things we really want. There's a lot of ways we try to get it. Some try drugs. Some try sex, but that's not really what you want. Whether you drink something or eat something, that's not really what you want. What you want it's significance. What you want is security. But here's what I want to say. Under the unction of the spirit of God. Somebody share

this message online right now. Share it online, because what I'm about to say is going to set somebody free. When you attach your significance to status, or when you attach your security to stuff, it's never enough. It is never enough. So if it's four figures, five figures, six figures, seven figures, eight figures, if you get it, you'll be worried about losing it. If you have to have it to make you somebody, I'm not mad. I've got an Instagram account to post on it and swipe up about

it and share it with a friend. But if I need that to be me, it's just a matter of time and I'll prove it to you. Out of all the fishermen in the Sea of Galilee, Jesus chose four. Okay, out of those four, he had a favorite three. Andrew didn't even make the three. He's the one that brought Peter to Jesus. Some of us will be defined not by what we do, but what we empower others to do, and it will be the greatest contribution of our lives. Somebody shout about that, Yeah, you don't even know. You

don't even know how God is using you. That parking dude out there this morning, jumping up and down. He made me so happy to preach to you. He didn't even know I start. He was doing all this stuff, all this throwing up stuff. Kat I didn't know what he was doing. It made me happy, helped me preach. You don't know, because the kingdom of this world only celebrates what is seen. And out of the four he had a favorite three, Peter, James and John. But it's

never enough. Out of all the people he could have chosen, he chose twelve. They were two of the twelve. Out of the twelve that he chose, there were three. They were two of the three. But it's not enough. It's never enough. So they come to him and they're like, a mom, you do it. You know all the ways we used to mask our real motives. Mom, Now it's not so much what they asked, it's when they asked it. He had just told them, I'm going to the Cross.

I used to think they were selfish. They weren't selfish. They were scared. When you are scared, when you are fearful, when you secretly think you don't have what it takes, it causes you to do crazy stuff to get attention. It's not really attention that you want, it's intimacy. This is getting good. This is getting good. Let's do the series for the rest of the year. It's not really to be noticed, it's to be known. That's what we

really want. It takes you a lot of your life to figure out what you really want before you realize. What I really want is to be connected to God. And when when they came to him, they came to him honestly. And I need to illustrate this. Come here, JJ, who else who wants to help me preach? Will you help me? Help me? Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me? So come here. I need one more, I need one more. You look a little too anxious. I'm scared you're gonna steal the spotlight. Yeah, come on,

come on, come on, go, you'd be good. We just acted out real quick. And I'm going to leave you with this because it's powerful. It's the way my mind imagines the scriptures and the way I see things. And I want you to be thinking about this this week. Somebody say I already got it. I already got it. Say it again, I already got it, already got it, already got it, already got it, already got it. Because the kingdom of this world is all about arrival. The

Kingdom of Heaven is all about awareness. The kingdoms of this world are all about achievement. When I get that, when I have that, when I get there, when I lose that, when I gain that, that is the world's definition of greatness. When will we stop allowing the world to define what God created? God makes you great, God's approval, God's authority, God seal, God's ownership. You are not a nobody. He didn't die for nobody, He didn't set his lifeblood

for nobody. He didn't go to the cross for nobody. And the way I saw it, look here, you be over here, you be Jesus, just for this illustration. Don't go home with this. Just be Jesus for three minutes. God show you something. It was powerful to me how I read it. Both y'all come here, you be James you stay there, Jesus, I felt weird saying that. You know what I mean, Lord, he said. Matthew recorded it like this, He said this mother, I'll be the mom

you be. The boys brought her sons to Jesus. She knelt, they stood, said, need you to do something for me. My deepest desire is that these boys will be okay and in your kingdom that you've been preaching about in demonstrating that you came to establish. I need you to make sure that one gets at your right, one gets at your left. I read the text so many times before realizing that at the moment that she asked for this,

she brought her boys to Jesus. And when she said, will you grant that my boys can stand at your right and your left, at the moment that she asked that they were already there. Could it be that you're already there and you don't even know it. You could be chosen and not even know it, to be so focused on the future, to be so focused on there that you miss it here. When he came to preach,

he preached, the Kingdom of Heaven is here. I want us to take just a moment, and every grateful person I want you to celebrate where God already brought you from and where He already brought me to, just to get a picture that I'm already there. He already loves me, he already accepts me, he already shows me, he already knows me, he already called my name. Come on, that's not a big enough praise. You need to get down and humble yourself and say, thank you, Lord for what

you've paved me, for what you've made me. He's doing it right now. He's doing it. He's doing it right now. The kingdom is at hand, The kingdom is here, The kingdom is now, the Kingdom is within you. Thank you Lord, Thank you Father. If you never do anything else, you did so much for me. I believe greater things are ahead, but I thank you for where I am right now. I already got it. It is mine right now. I'm accepted,

right now, I'm validated. Right now. Puts your approval on them, God, puts your yes on him, puts your favor on them. Puts your has said to find mercy be upon him in this year. Would you just lift your hands like this, like you're receiving something God. I've I've searched so hard for what I already had, and I just want to stop in your presence and thank you today that you

called who you wanted, and you wanted me. I thank you that I'm already at the right hand where there are pleasures forever, more fullness of joy in your presence, in your presence, in your presence, in your presence. We know the past has its issues, and we know the future has its uncertainties. But in your presence, it's fullness of joy. Right here now, I thank you that these your children are a royal priesthood, a holy nation belonging

to a kingdom that can never be shaken. We give you praise for your name is great in Jesus, saying Amen, Amen, come on, celebrate him on the level of who he is to you. Come on, celebrate him on the level of who he is to you. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. You can click the link in the description to give now, or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more information,

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