Embracing Sacred Leadership and Servanthood in the Church

You’re only appointed to the church that have laid hands on you to serve because the only way leaders have ever imported throughout the bible biblical leadership is when they laid hands on them, they laid hands on them and set them out in acts chapter 13 they lay hands on parliament and balance and paul in acts chapter 1 they laid hands on matthias to replace judas, they laid hands on them to be among them. When you’re no longer among them, then you’re no longer recognized as being one of them, because you’re no longer among them. [00:33:36]

But now to serve here you need to be made an elder here, because you need your pastor to lay hands on you your current pastor not the pastor you were at five churches before. I don’t need to come to the leadership class I’ve been a leader for 20 years, really, but it wasn’t here it was there, where but we were taught where we were, yeah that’s fine but you wasn’t under this teaching, and now you’re saying you want to these sheep, so now you need to be instructed in what’s happening in this house, not what you learned from that house, because if what you learned in that house was so good you need to be still there. [00:34:26]

Don’t bring that stuff over here, because leadership here is not leadership fair. Why do I got to go to leadership class, I’ve been a leader for a long because you weren’t a leader in this house, and because you need the spirit of this leader. Well so I think in second corinthians chapter one maybe it’s first corinthians chapter one where there was so much division and they were current on about who baptized them and paul said I’m glad I ain’t baptized none of you, and they were claiming their ownership by who laid hands on them. [00:35:12]

Some say I’m on peter some say of this one some saying of christ because you are connected by who laid hands on you. So don’t come in here with somebody else’s spirit, that’s why we appoint leaders in each house because when you decide you’re going to be a part of this house the head man must lay hands on you or the whatever the set gives the house is the head man or the head woman I’m not arguing over men and women leadership that’s a mute issue people get all crazy arguing over stuff they don’t make sense, so whatever your hit or set leader is that person needs to lay hands on you because you are to operate with their spirit. [00:36:02]

And it comes through the laying one of hands and the signing of documents that authenticate you, that you’re a part of calvary, you’re a part of power faith, you’re a part of first baptist you’re a part of whatever house that you have signed to be faithful to, then you must sign off we’re getting hands laid on to you from the head of that house. Is that clear, don’t come in here with somebody else’s spirit, trying to operate in my house with another leader’s spirit, you coming around and just want to be a member that’s fine but if you want to be in leadership I need to lay hands on you because I need to impart what’s so you can get the vision of my house, not come here with some cross vision from somewhere else. [00:36:57]

If you said the lord let you here, then submit to what’s here. You cannot be authenticated at large it just doesn’t happen, your credentials you need to you heard what that announcement just said a while ago and you weren’t from this area she’s giving you authority now to say just say that you know bishop smith you want to go to the prayer breakfast and you’re not from this area just so you know bishop smith that’s just a courtesy, but if you say you want a bishop smith’s ministers, and you don’t do stewardship here, you don’t attend here, you’re not submitted here, can you learn, amen. [00:38:04]

It’s not a matter of bondage, it’s a matter of security, you’re scared because they watch over your soul, you know and in hebrews 13 and 8 you know those that watch over you yeah, here’s what the double understanding in greek is, those in leadership should not demand honor but those who are serving under leadership should not withhold honor, did you hear that, I don’t have to demand it, but you should not withhold it, you should honor those who rule over your muscle not the oxygen turn out the corn, honor them I shouldn’t have to tell you need to serve me, you need to give to me you need to support me no the bible said you shouldn’t do that, that becomes arrogant I shouldn’t have to demand honor, but you should not withhold honor. [00:38:56]

There are there are certain leaderships that are with under the authority of the local church that means that when you use the title elder minister deacons, those authorities are done because a local church has laid hands on you, ordaining you have set you out for those authority, other titles like minister and evangelist are at large titles, now technically you don’t need a title to minister, god’s giving you an anointing you can minister anyway, but if you’re using the titles like elder deacon, um, no deacon of where elder of where you’re associated you’re you’re you’re ordained from some leader who has laid hands on you, current leader, wait a minute current leader who has laid hands on you, not pass leader. [00:40:10]

You need to be in somebody’s church where you’re held at, you always tell I don’t know I’m on the bishopric you ain’t under me I’m not a pastor I’m telling folks you under me, you turn to me, I want to talk to you no time to me talk to your pastor, I have leaders that ties to me I don’t need members tithing to me members need to tie to their leaders, then leaders tied to me, you don’t sometimes with me sometimes you’re a pastor, besides you’re a church you need to be connected to a local church tied to them, that pastor if he’s a sex connection to me will tie up to me you want to talk to me talk to your leader, and tell folks all the time time to your leader yeah. [00:41:24]

Three types of members, three types of members, get this in your spirit three types of men yeah well, it was a primary secondary you had three types of members, oh now you gotta yeah thank god I know you’re gonna do it that’s why I told you yes earlier about primary and secondary leaders, you got it there you gotta run down now see, and people are followers, they will follow the primary or secondary leader depending on who has the most voice, everybody should be proud of the primary leader, but secondaries need to cause confusion because they’re in the majority, and I can put you in the majority so you can influence people I set you in authority so you can lift my arms. [00:42:24]

He was a temple porter he’s a prophet but his job that day was to clean the temple, so he gets this vision from the lord while he’s ministering, some of y’all think ministry is just preaching, he was cleaning the temple, he was a temple porter, when he says in the year the king is that that I saw also the lord highly lifted up he was cleaning the temple, and he saw the train of god filled the temple, you can’t even get some of you to pick up a broom, isaiah was a temple porter, cleaning the temple going through the pillars and, and suddenly he gets a vision, ah, he was serving, that’s what I mean, in the midst of a humble task, god can give you an illumination. [00:47:22]

All you have to do is do what the leader tell you to do, it’s when you do what you’re being told, jesus said you’re my disciples if you do what I tell you to do, that’s what that notes about servanthood is all about, that you got it’s learning how to serve, the whole idea of servanthood and that’s why I gave it to you so you could understand some things about servanthood and pulling it together so you can get to servanthood I want you to get this last slide in my conclusion and then I’ll let you have some questions before we close out. [00:48:05]

Jesus christ I want you to see your personal life’s involved with these five areas, church family community and work the reason I did it in a circle is because I want you to understand that it’s not priority number one two three or four, it’s putting christ in the center of all of it, christ is in the center of your work he can consider your community he’s in the center of your activities he’s going to consider your family he’s in the city of your personal life christ should be in all of it, you shouldn’t just worry about christ when you come to church, departmentalized some people like departmentalize christ. [00:48:47]

Well I don’t have to deal with christ I don’t want them involved in my family to have a crisis, I don’t want to involve my workload until I lose a job, I don’t need christ involved in my church till we have issues, now if you put him in the center, if he’s the center of your life, then everything else flows around the fact that you have christ. [00:49:27]

The world’s value system is that you study, perform service, and that equals success, that’s the world’s value system I know you can’t see it but at that bottom pyramid is study, the bottom the second pyramid is service, and the top one is success that’s the world’s value system if you study hard, work, you will get success, look at the next one here’s the bibles, the kingdom, value system, if you study, because discipleship is to be a lifelong, learner, lifelong level learner you never get through studying, for all the years I’ve been in the ministry I’m still studying every day I get every morning study scripture I I never I never think I’ve learned enough. [00:50:19]

And you serve all the time I’m always serving, and the success is to get down, not to reach up, for he that humbles himself shall be exalted, all of that is just going to push me down and p in the world’s eye that’s going to lift me up in god’s eye, the other way, if I’m prideful will lift me up in the world’s eye, but will put me down in god’s eye, what shall I prophet a man, if he gains the whole world, and lose his soul, some of us losing our soul over wealth and over prosperity and or materialism, because we think that’s it it’s not that god’s going to hold that for you he says first seek ye the kingdom of god and all these things will be added, not sought after added. [00:51:21]

Solomon said solomon you are so great I’m gonna make you so great you can ask me anything solomon said I just want wisdom to lead your people and the lord said because you did not ask for riches I’m gonna give them, because you did not ask for success I mean see god will give you what you don’t ask for, all you need to do is ask for the right thing, and he’ll see those things that you keep trying to seek after are benefits, and if you take them as benefits they’ll come to you, they’re going to come to you but if you’re seeking them then you’re going to get prideful, you know say you’re seeking after you’re going my my car my house my money my possession god said fine I can’t protect anything belongs to you, but if you transfer ownership, I protect what’s mine. [00:52:24]

The earth is the lord’s and the fullness thereof psalm 24 and the world and they gather everything I have belongs to him, so I say god you’re home, it’s your family, it’s your thing so god has an obligation to protect what’s his, he doesn’t have our obligation to protect what’s yours, the reason why you get losses is because you haven’t transferred ownership, you keep talking my my my my mind, and god say right go ahead yo it’s yours, you take care of it then, but if you give it to me, I gotta protect my my reputation. [00:53:20]

Solomon requested was for god to take care of them when they went astray, and he answers them in chapter seven and says if they humble themself and seek my face then I’ll hear from heaven, I know they’re going to mess up, but I’m the god of the second chance, I’m going to restore them. [00:54:24]

First type of member is an attendee, you might call them visitors no but they’re permanent visitors, all they do is attend, they don’t become involved in nothing, they just attend don’t even want to give you their phone number, they attend these all they do is come, they attendees, second type of member are the endorsers, which means they endorse the church they always oh bishop smith you all know him, man he he does a lot of healing delivery, man we talk about he’s an endorser, I’m endorsing ministers you yeah you go there no I don’t go there but he’s a good man, so you get first type of attendees and the church before church growth expert says only 10 of the people do 90 of the work. [00:55:00]

So you got a lot of folks attend us who are not givers, they don’t give they don’t support, they’re not part of the ministry departments of the church they just attend, so you see all the people coming are they really members or their attendees, you get folks on the street that endorse you like crazy, let’s go on john was an endorser of jesus, he said behold the lamb of god to take away the sins of the world, get in prison he sends a word are you the one, or should we look for another, there’s some folks who endorse you past the girl who never come to support you, oh but the last type of member are the supporters. [00:55:48]

These are the members in john chapter 6 that jesus liked, jesus preached his worst sermon in john chapter 6 when he says I’m the bread of life so why he preached a letter servant because everybody walked away from him he said unless you eat of this flesh and drink this blood, you’ll be no part with me people say he talking about cannibalism we don’t know what he’s talking about, leave it’s not, he turns around look at those who are close to him and say will you also go, peter said I’m bankrupt, until you become bankrupt to your leader, he says whom shall we go, you got the words of eternal life, I got no other options, I’ve sold myself out, those are committed people. [00:56:28]

They’re committed they got no I don’t care what anybody say about you I don’t care what they do about you I it’s something about I may not understand everything you say or understand everything you’re doing but I know you’re a man of god or you’re a woman of god, they said where we going, you have the words, I don’t know what you just said out there, but I know, whatever it is you god’s man, that means people ain’t gonna understand every message you preach, but they know that when you stressed out that you’re a man of god your character, your surface you haven’t last all these years not being a man of god I might understand every sermon but and you’re rightly so you ain’t supposed to understand everything, but you got to believe that god has said what he had to say to your leader. [00:57:20]

I don’t get it but you will in time, just stick there long enough jesus said when he the spirit of truth has come, john 16 and 13 he will guide you into all truth everything I’m saying to you now you ain’t gonna get it but stick around a while, you’re gonna be in a service one day and the holy spirit, you on a message that he preached six months ago you know what I understand that but lord I get it now, have you ever had any get it moments in your church, I mean really haven’t had any get it moments you didn’t get it when you first heard it but suddenly one day you got it, because you stay committed, you will get it. [00:58:08]