You're in Training, Part 3 (cont'd)

Is not about what we think is not what the father and the father starts with commitment apprenticeship with commitment to be sold out.

You gotta be all in, you will follow Jesus.

You gotta follow him all the way commitment. It's something of a lost art in today's culture, but you can't be a true disciple of Christ without it.

Hello and welcome to this Tuesday. Addition of Destin for victory with pastor Paul Sheppard who is senior pastor at destiny Christian Fellowship in Fremont, California received almost everywhere you look people hopping from one job to the next one church to the next one marriage to the next stage of broken contracts and shattered vows to God who never changes asks us to commit to him to his ways and to his instruction had today pastor Paul reminds us that as believers in Christ we are in training and if we quit halfway through, we may as well have never started at all. Stay with us here or visit pastor Paul.net to listen on demand again pastor Paul.net now in today's Destin for victory message you're in training is pastor Paul ministry is in the body of Christ in you and you in the event dependent about God is on you. You can have all the witnesses you want, until some one is trying God use you and says God is all you want to anoint you for this so that you have no business going out and minister, we gotta get back to we got to get back to understanding that there is a succession in the body of Christ. Leadership comes from succession… From one generation to another through the process of succession somebody else's gotta see it other than you told me I was cold, for I knew I was cold to do what I've been doing throughout my adult life, leading people ministering to people in this way people send it to me they saw God's hand years before I saw it I ran from it ran ran ran. Now we got run into it. It's okay to aspire for ministry. But you gotta do it lawfully when you're faithful over a few things to get under a leader.

No just hop around to. You find somebody will promote you security sometime before they come to your church.

As long as you will put them on the stage quickly and give them some conspicuous to do done work like that in the kingdom. My first job was to teach a Sunday school class and we had no classroom is put a few chairs out that show class teacher and do it faithfully and don't be late and be prepared when you show up only standard, which I want about the day and you do it for years and I graduated to Deacon graduated to Deacon which means servant graduated to servant and you learn how to serve people that I told you herby tell the story.

One of my jobs of the young people to take the lady who lived a church called Reese Sunday the Lord's bind to the planet. I had to drive that lady way.

I still don't know what town that was. She lived in a one Philadelphia I could tell you church was smack dab in the middle of the city and Ms. lady live. God knows where she was a little West Indian lady. She worked as a home servant live in service to a wealthy physician and his family may live way out somewhere she want to come in. Insurgency fables will be every Sunday and I didn't have to go pick her up. They made other arrangements job Deacon Paul. You take all dry. That lady never did give me gas money she just sing and pray the Lord. I noticed today what we had three hour morning services all my church. We we had church that we were done three hour morning service did you go downstairs and you Fellowship Ridge also chicken churches smelled a chicken coming up toward the end of the service to chicken all in your face, trying to concentrate on Caesar macaroni and cheese just come in at macaroni and cheese chicken greeting below the plate. Slice and poundcake sweet potato and you will go after charts and she just may have fellowship with and even praising God and love things would get up at and they combined they go home, but she was there with that last few she wanted to get that last little bit of fellowship and I'm standing that "you can't interrupt when we need the legal see that allowed her to other senior citizens at the table is gone and the whole chart long for Ms. Eaton. Okay, got to drive home way out somewhere the day before GPS you just had to get home by fave just figure out how to get home. We went sometime in by myself but you had to prove my dad told me years later used to be really hard on me over things out of the musician of the church and every now and then I was working so hard every now and then I will take a little break and we have guest singers and some company and people I knew Nagel lead the music for that service and what have you. And so was like okay I got some just come in they delete afternoon service and that would express revenue services, get them situated. Go home, take me if you have gained will be in a one and even games and rest. One time I was home I set up the music people to guess what my phone my father at the church service going on. I set up the gas passing him in the background is. He said did I tell you, you didn't have to come the afternoon service that will pop you know you know I just know he said we lived about 10 minutes away from the church.

He said I expect to see you in 10 minutes. I got matured close all give me 15 minutes. He said I would be here when I got there but was only probably in half-hour more service to go to go back with want me to play some. He said you had to come back because you will not be here in the first place to go sit around church. When I got back there because he knew he had taught the lesson next time, save yourself.

This extra trip by having you happy hips MS surface.

You've gotten permission not to be apprenticeship where we get off modern-day Christian thinking in the opening goal because we wanted to go except our stuff just because we have free choice. You got free choice, but the demigod had to be. Please would came well but he gave and he does I guess. Assume God will take it and God said your offering is displeasing to me is not about what we think is about what the father wants and the father starts with commitment apprenticeship as a do with commitment. You got to be sold out. You gotta be all in, you will follow Jesus.

You gotta follow him all the way, Elisha leftist, when you look at the rest of verse 20 and 21 of first Kings 19 Elisha left his family to follow this new mentor. He said let me go kiss them goodbye and see what you what about W guess I put my cloak over you but he says no big deal with me.

I told you God called you.

Now it's up to you.

You gotta respond to the call. With commitment and a lot of us have been called by God. God's hand is on you. He wants to use you in a more significant way and your family on your job and your community in your chart you but he says you've got it now respond with commitment and Elisha Winton took care of things cooked a meal which was a show of respect. He was saying to his parents. I honor you as I get ready to leave, I'm not leaving in 1/2. I'm leaving honoring you I'm leaving take care of you. He was saying by cooking for them. I will always be available to help you if you need me, but I must go. There's a calling on my and he set out and followed Elijah.

We got a generation of very poor followers. All we want some I do respect us. We want somebody to treat us right and we have our demand that we have and all of that, but how well do you guys looking for followers in this day not only for followers of him what he's looking for us to follow those he's raised up to lead us. I'm astounded at how poor we follow pastoral leadership in today's church. He ain't nobody yes he is. He is God's man, God called him he's in under shepherd under God. God called him then you follow him as he follows Christ, and we just put on his pants as I got put on mine. Well, I put them on the same way but mine of the past is pants being put on this in mono E mono you know you will raise up on me like I'm here.

We are brothers only know I'm a leader will be right back with more of today's destiny for Victor message from Pastor Paul Sheppard to listen any of Pastor Paul's recent broadcast. Be sure to stop by Pastor Paul.net to listen on demand. That's Pastor Paul.stay with us after today's message with Pastor Paul joins me from a studio in California. First, the rest of today's teaching you're in training once again hears best repulsion and if you want to be blessed.

You gotta learn how to follow the leader is not popular what is right in the karate kid. Daniel would've never been anything until he got under the tutelage of Mr. Mia about the 1984. The original one. Mr. me.

I don't remember Miyagi talking man brought me a crisis was beating him up. Although just the fence all remember that. And they went all bully Kolodny school they were taught no mercy and one boy was turned on the board. We learned not to come in for one and saves the day. Miyagi Chapel balled up all of him laying around. Sprawled out Daniel submit her buddy see somebody Miyagi was throwing his cloak over him send you the next karate master, but you will have to respond to the calling commitment and then over the 2010 same Revelation different characters. Jaden Smith is mama father is dead. He's feeling a whole new world. No father is excited but he he's trying to figure out how to live in this new world and he runs into his own bullies over there and the same thing happening right at a crisis point. He brought the guest service showed enough could also be a little bit and then one has always had a bout to come in and take him and hit on Jackie Cheney. All gift lies in their Jackie use some of them to be when you can take a bully and be a bully when a billing you are bad. Somebody I will learn how to do that myself so bad you take somebody or be somebody with that somebody anywhere in my message as a result was cast over him, but he had to respond with commitment. Jaden had to say alright, I'm only I will learn from you was great in the movie Teresa I will learn from you.

It's a commitment number two second quality of apprenticeship and Bible culture is obedience and apprentice must learn to obey unconditionally. It is not the apprentice job to figure out what he agrees with it is not his job to even understand why he's being commanded to do something then then mess us up in today's work buddy, want to explanation back everything before they decide whether they be real like Dawson starts in the home. We grow up. You could ask the question why, but you didn't necessarily expect an answer most of all your we grow will you got a look and tell you everything you will answer start doing what Justin is telling you terribly quickly now full-blown explanations negotiating I just watch these pair the bay in amazement. They sit down to negotiate, they explain, they rationalize and make God bless you all. God bless you. I was working for you were to have no frame of reference, I start scratching only what I see that it just was so close yet it was all this, would you please consider the possibility of perhaps thinking about picking up your toys and put them in the box that you pulled them out with you. It will be really helpful if you will see what they do or grandpa or somebody who come from a different world. They don't dry the same stuff in their house. They can get away with something you can to help train and make us all everywhere we just say no you get going go home but then we should talk if they try to go anyway. Did you hear what I just learned you can see the two obedience unquestioning obedience was part of the ship Jesus learned obedience by the things he suffered, and he shows us and models obedience both at the beginning and the end of his earthly ministry retreat.

What I'm a rookie realtor to the interest of time and look for justice down to read when you get chance versus one through 12, before he launches his earthly ministry.

He's been anointed by John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit has come upon the meaning years of training of apprenticeship under his earthly father is up now he's going into apprenticeship under his heavenly father as he launches his ministry and it starts where with the spirit, driving him into the wilderness, why to be tempted of the devil, why you started ministry in a season of grave temptation because the father, the master is proving his apprentice by putting them through that.

He says if you come out of this than I can use you and Jesus pass the test every time the devil came up with the temptation he passed it with the word unquestioning obedience hear anybody say what he thought. He said it is written is my daddy said his with my master said that's how he got anointed through learning how to be an effective apprentice and the power of God was on the end of his ministry. The worst of all of the temptation really wasn't the temptation to resist the cross and he passed that in the garden of Gethsemane when you get a chance read Matthew 26 verses 36 through 44 and you see them in the garden struggle and he struggled so until broke through the membranes of his sweat. He struggled like no man has ever scribbled before. But he said nevertheless not my will but thine be see the problem what you is you will want to because what you want to do is of primary importance you ever want to be some God learn to say nevertheless not my will, if you want to be a good leader learn to be a good follower if you want God to bless you with much be faithful to what he's already given you. Thanks so much for being here for two days destine for victory message you're in training. As promised, Pastor Paul joins me now from a studio pester your ministry to us each day of the radio and with the various online sources for destined for victory. So encouraging and one more thing that you do you feel strongly about this is the monthly encouragement letter that goes out to everyone what you say word about that.

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Jesus modeled obedience for us. He was our example in all things. When Jesus was about to launch his ministry. He modeled obedience at the beginning of his ministry is tomorrow and Pastor Paul Shepard's message you're in training until then.

Remember he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.

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