SENT Part 12 | A Date with Destiny | Concord Church

``See not only must you hear from God, secondly you must be clear about what you hear. I'm trying to make this simple y'all. Y'all know it's youth pastor. Yeah. You must be clear on what you hear. See the people love Paul. Their motives were pure. They didn't want to see any more harm come to their friend. He was their brother. He was their leader so they interpreted the revelation as a prohibition. In other words, they concluded that Paul should not go to Jerusalem because of the chains and the affliction that awaits. [00:13:42] (46 seconds)  #ClarityInCalling

There was an intimacy there. There there was a pursuit there. There was a desire to seek and be found in God's presence. Scripture affirms that we ought to know his voice. You can only learn his voice if you spend time with him. Spend time in his word. See, if you're not getting in God's word on the daily, communing with him on the daily, how you gonna hear from him? My amen's got a little softer. I'm telling you, yes, it is supernatural, and it is super possible. [00:10:10] (40 seconds)  #KnowHisVoice

Paul said what are y'all doing? See Paul understood his assignment. Paul said I I understand it now. Why y'all crying? Y'all are breaking my heart. Don't you know that I ain't never scared? Paul said, they can bind me, they can beat me, they can kill me but I'm still going. How do you go when you know? Here it is by faith. [00:18:13] (27 seconds)  #FaithOverFear

Male well meaning folks will talk you out of your destiny. I can go home now. That's that's enough for one sermon right there. Well meaning folks will talk you out of your destiny. Kind people will snatch you out of the will of God. Loving people will keep you from living your best life for God. You must be clear on what you hear. [00:15:07] (35 seconds)  #GuardYourCalling

You missed your shout right there. I ain't got nothing else. You gotta hear from God. You must be clear on what you hear. I'm done. Last one. We got to go. Here it is. Don't let fear keep you from what you've heard. My God. My God. Don't let fear keep you from what you've heard. Let me give you a little bit. And this I I was studying this at y'all. And y'all I came across a word that I'd never heard before. I'm I'm not lying. Y'all I I I'm just not boasting. I I have a degree in English y'all. [00:18:41] (33 seconds)  #FearWontStopMe

But also also that there is a cost associated with being sent. Y'all being sent costs. The more you grow in your faith, the less you hang around environments that compromise said faith. Cost. The more you resemble a follower of Christ, the less your time is your own. Cost. The more God pushes you in into that person that he has created, saved, and called you to be, the less validation you need from the world cost. I'm simply trying to suggest that being sent is rarely convenient and being sent costs. [00:02:02] (52 seconds)  #BeingSentCosts

See folks want you to live your life according to their standards, but if we're being sent and sent by the Lord is gonna cost you, is gonna be inconvenient, and people will misunderstand you. I need a witness up in here. Everybody won't get you. Everybody won't support you. Everybody won't speak well of you and watch this and that's alright. [00:04:10] (27 seconds)  #NotEveryoneWillUnderstand

Beloved, being sent is is rarely convenient. Have you noticed that in your own life? Whenever you have to be sent, it always comes when you're busy. It's rarely convenient when we live on assignment for God, purpose driven, kingdom minded, it is rarely convenient. Y'all, we have to be ready to be used by God at the drop of a hat. [00:01:28] (34 seconds)  #ReadyToBeSent

y'all this speaks to Paul's dilemma of how do you go when you know. Oh, god. I knew chains and affliction awaited me, and yet going home was unavoidable. It was inevitable. Y'all, I must need go. I figured mama wouldn't kill me literally, although I wish I was dead. But y'all here here here's what I realized. Here it is. Missing my curfew paled in comparison with the stuff my big brother had done. I ain't got no younger siblings in the house. So by faith I carried my tail home. Y'all passed 02:00 in the morning pleading the blood of Jesus all the way. [00:07:50] (65 seconds)  #CourageOverComfort

And y'all all too often we allow other folks to invade our hearts and our minds. Paul is saying here, I'm going with or without you, but you will not misinterpret the spirit over my life. [00:20:41] (18 seconds)  #SpiritOverOpinion

And so when believers are committed to fulfilling their destiny like you are by being sent, they also have to fight through the distraction of people, people's expectations, people's opinions. Y'all, the more we fight to please people, the more we risk displeasing God. [00:02:54] (23 seconds)  #PurposeOverApproval

I'm gonna hear a cricket even in the midst of all this noise. Come here, beloved. See, a lot of us will miss the still small voice of God because we are simply not tuned in. Y'all we are scrolling, we are liking, we are sharing, we are laughing but ultimately we are missing. [00:17:04] (23 seconds)  #TuneInToGod

So the question you gotta ask is, Lord, what is it you're specifically telling me to do? What assignment is waiting on me to fulfill? Watch this. Being sent ain't convenient. Being sent is gonna cost. [00:22:00] (17 seconds)  #SeekYourAssignment

Y'all it's the dissuasion of the people. Now I heard a persuasion. Uh-huh. Say, oh, oh, that's that's didn't say I said, dissuasion. See, we persuade people to do something. I persuaded my wife to buy me some new Travis Scott's. On the contrary, to dissuade is to keep someone from doing something. [00:19:26] (31 seconds)  #SpotDissuasion

So I stopped by here this morning to remind each and every one of you that you are being sent, Sent into the destiny of your purpose and of God's plan for your life, and your being sent will not allow you to be where you have been. God is calling you to something greater. [00:03:48] (22 seconds)  #SentIntoPurpose

and you can hear a cricket. I don't know how you did that. Here's what native American said. He reached into his pocket first, took out some change, and threw it on the ground. When he threw it on the ground 25 people stopped walking and stood. He said you always hear what you are tuned into. [00:16:36] (21 seconds)  #YouHearWhatYouTuneInto

Why? Because not tuned into God. So I stopped by to exhort you to be clear on what you hear. Y'all the spirit was warning Paul but the spirit was not preventing Paul. Paul had to go to Jerusalem. They are pleading with Paul to detour his destiny. [00:17:28] (21 seconds)  #WarningNotPrevention

You see last week pastor Carter led us as we studied Paul's sojourn to Jerusalem. See, he's got to get to Jerusalem. See, he's got to. He is determined. He is purpose driven to get to Jerusalem. One, because he's got a pocket full of cash. Oh, God. To give to the church at Jerusalem. [00:04:41] (28 seconds)  #PurposeDrivenJourney