UNCOMMON Series: Uncommon People

Uncommon People

Introduction:  Wasn’t SEW amazing??…and then Corey capped it off with Filthy Casual…that was ridiculous!

  • When PQ read his text and then asked “How long are you going to keep talking about your Egypt…” I closed my bible and started to pray through…
    • PQ dropped a Prophetic Word – “God has moved behind you either to protect or push…depending on our obedience to move forward.”
  • Then Luke Holter asked: “Have we made a peace-treaty with disappointment, so we don’t get hurt again.”
    • Dismissing our dreams because of low self-esteem.
    • Stop negotiating with greatness and own it.
    • Stop Selling yourself short – Donald
  • Pastor Sheryl Brady then stepped up here and torn the house down…when she said you have to do something and get in the water…it was as if I could see my feet stepping into the Jordan.
    • Don’t fight a battle that has no spoils.
    • Stop wasting your passion.
    • Don’t have time to be passive.
    • Jordan means “Death and Separation…” until somethings die…what you are facing won’t separate in front of you.” (That was me)
    • There is a Worship that can only be found in the Separation…
  • Then Germaine was Prophesying all kinds of stuff in this place…I was afraid to stand up…because he kept prophesying about pregnancy…
    • But it is time you get Pregnant like Hanna with a dream and a vision that God can use when it comes to full term and is delivered…
    • What a Powerful altar service that evening…
  • Then like I said: Corey…when he said “they were all in the upper room and they heard that voice of the Holy Spirit and it was familiar because they had spent 3 ½ years with Jesus…I lost my mind…
    • Here is what I know to be true – “Filty Casual produces filthy compromise in the Next Generation!”

Transition:  I’m thinking that is a great way to calibrate the year…Cross the Red Sea, leaving your Egypt and Enemy behind you…go on ahead and cross the Jordan of Separation, so we stop being Filthy Casual and lay hold of the promises and give birth to the dreams God has placed in our lives…

Now None of that happens Unless you do what I teach you today…the title of my message this Morning is:

Title:  Uncommon People

1 Peter 2:9 9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.  (NLT)

  1. Chosen
    1. Now as I get into this text I have to share a word with you that is significant to the entirety of the scripture or you miss the whole thing…
    2. The Word is YOU…
      1. The you in the text is both Singular and Plural…
      2. We live in a Christian Church Culture that relates everything to the Singular…in other words…ME. Which carries value…
  • But the word YOU is also for the greater good of the Plural…for others…
  1. You as an Individual and You as MercyGate have been Chosen…
    1. The word Chosen means: to be picked out by God, brought to salvation through Christ and made God’s Favorite…
    2. Look at your neighbor and ask them…are you Saved…Then You’re God’s Favorite…
  2. Because you have been Chosen by God through Salvation…that makes you Uncommon…You are different than everybody else…
    1. Story of Brain Briggs:
    2. I have a friend of mine who recently moving and you know how that is…you find all kind of things you forgot you had. Well he called an told me he found some old Topps trading cards…he has like several hundreds…now he has some that have been assessed and graded with a numerical value that he has in special cases…they are known in the Card Collect World has Uncommon Cards.  Well there is another group of cards that are called Common Cards…the have no value to them seemingly…well my friend has a 10 year old son who has never seen his fathers collection of cards.  So, his son begged him, dad can we go through some boxes and look at them…wide eyed and intrigued…tired but compromising with his son he said…pick one box and we’ll go through them…the son grabbed a box of common cards.  My friend along with his son each grabbed a stack of cards and started shuffling through them…all of a sudden Brian, my friend, came across a card…a rookie card…that was in the common card box…and he freaked out…because in the common card box was a guy’s card who was drafted in the year 2000.  He was the 199th person picked, which put him in the sixth round…you guessed it…He was holding in his hand Tom Brady’s rookie card.  He immediately looked up the value of this card to discover it was worth $4,500 if it is in bad shape…His card is in mint condition. 

Transition:  But here is the truth…in 2000 Tom Brady’s card was in the right place…in the common card box…who knew at that time He would become the G.O.A.T. …Tom Brady’s future changed because he was Chosen…but then the work began.

  1. Royal Priesthood
    1. 1 Peter then introduces us to something so Taboo and Dangerous…
    2. Peter says, “You are a Royal Priesthood”
      1. Now that is Uncommon at a New Dimension…
      2. You weren’t just chosen you were put into a Royal Priesthood…
    3. This portion of the verse and the rest of this text is so HUGE…I really don’t have time to go through all the Nuances of it…
      1. In the Old Testament you couldn’t be King and a Priest…
      2. Matter of fact, One particular King tried to assume Priestly responsibilities and role…and this King did what was right and pleasing unto the Lord…until he stepped out of his role and office…and God struck him with Leprosy…His name was Uzziah…Isaiah the Prophet wept over the news of this King’s passing…because he was the closest King in conduct to David that Israel had had…
  • But because of our High Priest Jesus…we are now called Royal Priesthood…both individually and collectively.
  1. This means our lives should be lived as priests who serve God as his temple and as Kings in the earth…
    1. Each priest and Levite had different ministries to perform, yet they were together under the high priest, serving to glorify God. As God’s priests today, we must work together at the direction of our Great High Priest. Each ministry that we perform for His glory is a service to God.
  • Consistency is Greater than Intensity
    1. Matt 7:7-8 7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. (NLT)
  1. I think Jesus is saying something here…Keep on…Keep on…Keep on…
  1. Uncommon People do consistently what others do Occasionally!
    1. DON’T MISS THAT!!!
    2. IF YOU WALK AWAY WITH NOTHING ELSE GET THIS QUOTE TODAY…
  2. If you and I are going to become Uncommon…we are going to have to become Consistent…
    1. One of the things I love about Jesus is: HE is Consistent…the same yesterday, today and forevermore…
    2. If he healed yesterday…he’ll heal today…
  • If he provided yesterday…he’ll provide today…
  1. My question isn’t is God consistent, my challenge is Am I.
    1. I know if I treat the little things like they are big things…God will do the big things like they are little things…
  2. Consistency is Greater than Intensity.
    1. 30 minutes in the gym 3 days a week will produce more than 10 hours in the gym 1 day a month
    2. 15 minutes reading your bible and prayer will produce more than 2 chapters and an hour once a week…
  • Worshipping Daily for a few minutes will produce more than your entire 30 minutes at church…
  1. Disciplines
    1. Tom Brady became Tom Brady because of the Disciplines in his life…
    2. Acts 2:42-44 42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. 43 A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.
  1. All the Believers Devoted Themselves
    1. When we read in Acts of all the miracles…
    2. Of all the Uncommon…
  • I believe the key is found here in verse 42 “All the Believers Devoted Themselves…”

Transition:  Uncommon People Have Uncommon Spiritual Disciplines…See Discipline Creates Margin for the Uncommon.

  1. Pain
    1. I’ve told you for years “Don’t waiste your Pain…” It’s too expensive. Pain is and can be your greatest treasure…if you let it work for you instead of against you and I’ve done both.
    2. Wherever there is the lack of Margin there is the Pressure of Pain…
    3. In the Places of Pain, You have to introduce a Discipline to Create Margin… Don’t Miss That!!!
      1. Now here is the rub…Spiritual Wisdom and Godly Discipline is contrary to what the World and others around you will offer…

Transition: Let me share a few…

  1. Stress, fatigue, weariness, frustration…busy…does that identify anyone’s Pain Point or just mine…
    1. How many wishes for 8 days a week instead of just seven…
    2. So, what is the Discipline that must be introduced…SABBATH…
      1. A full Sabbath…from 6pm one day to 6pm the next day…or however you introduce the discipline…
      2. But Pastor I can’t get all I need to do now done…
      3. I know…you need a Sabbath…
      4. Chick Fila is the most successful fast food chain in America…and they are closed on Sunday…they take a Sabbath.
    3. Another Pain Point…too many bills and not enough money…
      1. What’s the Discipline – tithing
      2. Now to the World that makes no sense…but we are introducing Chosen, royal priesthood values and disciplines into our lives…
  • This is the number one reason I hear from believers of why they don’t give…Pastor I can’t afford to give…
    1. Well this is what I know…You in all of your efforts can’t make a 100% meet all your needs…why Not give God 10% and see what He can do with the other 90%
  1. Uncommon People have the Right People Around them…
    1. In the book of Job he has three friends who tell Job that all of his suffering is His own fault…and God has to rebuke those friends…
    2. But Job has another friend who’s name is Elihu whose name means: “All I need is God”…tells Job this:
      1. Job 36:15 15 But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer. For he gets their attention through adversity.(NLT)
  1. Sounds like James chapter 1 “count it all Joy whenever you fall into various trials and temptations…”
  • Do you have the right people around you…
    1. People who will tell you what you need to hear not what you want to hear
    2. People who will encourage you
    3. People who have a testimony of what God is doing and can do…
    4. People who challenge you to grow as well people you are taking on the growth journey with you…
    5. Many hands make light work…

Transition:  Let me show you what it is like to have the right People Around You…People who don’t do the math but do their Part…

PUT UP OUR KINGDOM BUILDERS GIVING THIS YEAR…

That comes from having the Right People Around You…The Greater You is able to Celebrate Making a Difference all over the World in 2022…

Next Week:  Uncommon Partnerships…

Take-A-Ways:

  • Uncommon People do consistently what others do Occasionally!
  • Consistency is Greater than Intensity.
  • All the believers devoted themselves
  • Uncommon People Have Uncommon Spiritual Disciplines
  • In the Places of Pain, you have to introduce a Discipline to Create Margin

Altar:  Some however haven’t given your lives to Christ so you had no idea you’ve been chosen…your status could change this morning…Tom Brady waited for 198 people to be picked…then His name was called…My friend God is calling your name this moring…Don’t miss it.

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