If You Can Use Anything Lord You Can Use Me | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson
by Chad Erickson
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Romans 14:17, Mark 7:27-28, Matthew 1, Matthew 15:22-28, Mark 7:24-30, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 107, Romans 14:17, Galatians 4:4-5

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he's good even on a Wednesday he's he's good even when you get a 6:15 phone call come on somebody God is good I don't even know did you get my scriptures no brother Dale didn't send them to you he's he's he's foring them to you right now so where does where does all behind the eight ball right here we're going to be all right though but uh turn in your Bibles with me to Romans chapter 14 in verse 17 and what an honor it's always an honor listen tonight uh brother Johnstone tonight is going to be so much easier than me trying to preach last Saturday I was in a uh I was in taipe Taiwan and I had never listen I preached with a Spanish translator uh translated into all kinds of different African dialects I I I've preached oh Lord into pigeon which that's kind of interesting already but um so many languages I I've I've preached and had them translated but in in in Taiwan of course they speak Manor Chinese and um but our missionary I love you brother Edmond our missionary decided that he was going to give give one of his pastors an opportunity to translate which sounds wonderful except that he didn't know English all that well so what what it end up happening what end up happening is I would preach a line he would look at me kind of confused he would then look at missionary Edmonds they would have a conversation brother Edmonds would explain to him what I said in mandrin and then he would tell the congregation what I said in Mandarin so if you can if you can imagine I'm I'm standing there and at first I didn't really know what was happening so I would say stuff like it's so good to be in the house of the Lord and about 90 seconds later like I forgot what I even said and they're still working on and so of course it was at that point that I decided two things I've never done anything this hard in my life and the second thing was I'm only going to say the stuff that really matters and I know y you all are saying well that's what you should be saying anyways but you know with preaching come on brother step you you know preached last night severable you know there's some rhetoric that we just enjoy come on somebody it's good to be in the house come on somebody has God been good come on somebody listen that would have been about seven minutes of Mandarin translation right there so when Pastor when he text me at about 610 I thought you know what it's going to be hard but it's not going to be that hard so we're going to we're going to have a we're going to have a we're going to have a good time Romans Chapter 14 verse 17 says for the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost all right and then turn with me to Mark chapter 7: 27 I'm going to read a couple couple verses In this passage right here Mark 7:27 this is I guess this would be our key uh verse this is our story that we're going to be getting to in just a few moments the Bible says but Jesus said unto her let the children first be filled for it is not meat to take the children's bread and to cast it under the dogs and she answered and said unto him yes Lord yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs oh I love that right there I I borrow my title uh from an old song we've sang just all my life we've sang it in church and my title is simply this if you can use anything Lord you can use me if you can use anything Lord you can use me maybe somebody here on a midweek service maybe you came tonight and maybe the devil the enemy's been beating you up because maybe you're not all you thought you ought to be by now anybody ever felt that way you thought by now surely I would be Beyond where I am today maybe if maybe if I had the right parents or the right grandparents or if I if I lived in the right neighborhood or in the right side of the tracks or if I had grown up with the right this or the right that maybe just maybe I would be somewhere further than where I am today but if you're like me you just say God woo if you can use anything oh God God surely you can use me Lord I I don't have anything to brag about I don't have any lineage I don't have any bloodline that I can brag about but God if you said you can use anything God if you'll if you'll take the least of these oh God and you'll make something great out of them Lord I know that you can use me I I don't know about you but I don't know in the word of God where where God ever used anything great to do great things but he was always using someone who was a willing vessel help me pray over this message father I need you I had good monitors I just lost them God I need you Lord God tonight I I need you just to work through me Lord God I need you to speak through me oh God I need you Lord God just to speak into my life as you speak into the lives of these beautiful people that stand before me Lord bless the congregation the First Apostolic Church bless Lord God every husband every father Lord God I pray every wife every mother every grandmother grandfather Lord I'm just believing in this house today Lord God that you're going to do great things Lord a mighty work in each one of us in each home represented here today in jesus' name we pray clap your hands if you want to give him praise if you're thankful that you're in the house of the Lord tonight if you can use anything Lord you can use me you may be seated before I before I got before I got to Taiwan I'm just going to give you just a little bit of uh just a little history and I know I told you last Wednesday night a little bit of my trip but I kind of I kind of messed up a little bit um I've been telling everybody it took me 36 hours to get uh to get to Papo New Guinea and and I was way off it took me three days that's that's like I've Got My Mind back now for my jet leg that's 72 hours 72 hours it took me I left here brother or at 6 o'clock I flew out Sunday night at 6 o'clock and I got I got to where I was supposed to go where the conference was in Papo Guinea this time Wednesday at about 6:00 it was Thursday morning there but it's so I left here Sunday got there Thursday um just Just A Series of Unfortunate Events which included a couple flights being canceled just just uh it was some unfortunate time but let me tell you something when I got into the presence of those people you you have never seen a people uh that that live a a a poorer lifestyle I'm talking um got there to the to the Head headquarters and um where I've been some place I've been some places in Africa I've been in South America man they have they have beautiful sanctuaries they got they got churches that are built uh they're having church under a tent under a big top a tent with nothing but but straw on dirt ground and those people they listen they are the happiest they are filled with more joy uh just just preach to them you see you see the excitement on their faces you you see that they come with expectancy because they just know that this preacher from America Has Come brother Malone and they just think that that means something they they they don't realize brother brother snitzer they they don't realize that that that I've been traveling for 72 hours and and I'm I'm wore out I'm jet Le and I'm just coming to bring them the best word I can bring them but they they think that something great is going to take place in the house and they come with this this heart of expect expectancy and they're ready to receive the word m matter of fact these people they're they're so poor if you can imagine and I preached about this last time I went to paa New Guinea but but when I when I got there this young man probably about 15 years old was wearing a tie that I had given him 10 years before felt if I just wear that tie well I got news for you I met him again guess what he was wearing three years later still wearing the same tie 13 years he had kept that tie that was his tie this was his Sunday tie that he wears I had there's a pastor that I have a friend there uh he's my translator I gave him my watch the last time I preached there or actually back in probably 13 years ago I gave him my watch in 2010 and and he still has that watch to this day I don't I doubt it even works I doubt they even have batteries for the watch uh that he has on but he has that watch on why is that because because there's there's something about wearing the watch of somebody from the United States of America wearing a tie from somebody from America it just means something to them because they have absolutely nothing it it was it was it was not so many so many decades ago matter of fact it was probably it was probably some 20 years ago that cannibalism finally ended in the world in Papa New Guinea 20 years ago is not very long ago M matter of fact there there's probably in that place there was probably young people whose grandfathers had eaten their grandfather I mean let's just be honest these tribes are against each other there there's so much disunity and I'm I'm sad to say that I made one of the biggest ministerial Goofs I've ever made when I was preaching this last time I was there I'm preaching I'm preaching about Joshua K matter of fact I was preaching the a a portion of the same message I preached on Sunday morning before I left and and I was reading through and and they were translating for me and they were doing really really good translating in the pigeon he was doing so good until I read the verses said that the people of Canaan would be bread unto us and he looked at me and the F brothers sisters the first thing that came to my mind I said we will eat them let me tell you something I had some weird looks in that congregation they're like they've been preaching against this for 20 years they're talking about he's talking about going into Canan land and eating people but they but they have they have absolutely nothing their problems are are so vast uh I read I read an article in their newspaper in the article in the newspaper was written and it had a man's name and it said he will not be tried for the murder that he committed because a gang of towns people caught him this this Rec just recently happened caught him and did to him what he had done to the victim they had taken M machetes and had chopped him up in the in the in the news said the case is now closed we're talking about you know we're here in America there they are a hundred years behind us they're poor they have nothing yet these people understand who they are in God they they they're poor physically they they have nothing their problems are huge yet they understand we may not have a genealogy we may not have some great bloodline or lineage but they're getting the concept that if we can just receive the gift of the Holy Ghost if we can be baptized in the name of Jesus for mission of our sins something happens to us it doesn't matter who our grandfather is it doesn't matter what happened in our tribe 20 years ago we have what we need in the spiritual but let let's talk about genealogies because Israel loved genealogy matter of fact in the penit there's a uh there's a book of the penet that that does nothing but just goes through who begat who right goes from from one to the next to the next to the next family line to the next family line and it just keeps on going this one begat this one this one begat this one and if you were named in the Bible it meant that you were a somebody now you might have live like the devil but somebody in your backstory uh they had to be as somebody uh and it was the people that weren't even named that the writer didn't even see a reason to even mention them who they were or who's they were or what line they came from and the the the the writer would probably he thought to himself this person won't be remembered anyways these these are the most least likely you you remember uh in high school we always had in in our annual our yearbook we'd have the the most likely two right most likely to succeed you know you know the most likely to marry first remember those people you know the the most likely to get a scholarship the mo the most likely to play play uh uh professional sports we had all kinds of the most likelies and and you see people's names but but what they had here was was the least likely these were people who whose names weren't even stories were told about them but the writer didn't even care to even reveal their name and the genealogy of Christ was given by the Israelites who respected a strong bloodline strong Patriarchs matter of fact they begin if you read the genealogy of Christ it begins a list with the prestigious Abraham Isaac and Jacob the patriar men of renown forefathers mighty men men who walked with and and sometimes even wrestled with angels Jacob whose name would later be changed to Israel would father the 12 tribes of the nation that's named named after himself but but what about what about the matriarchs let's talk about the matriarchs because it wasn't the custom of the day to include matriarchs in a genealogy especially women huh especially the women who were named in Jesus's bloodline I'm talking about Shady characters I'm talking about some women of reputation if if you will that that were the most least likely why were these women included in the genealogy of Christ and and what does their presence imply because in the book of St Matthew the author gives us a list of Jesus's ancestors in his very first chapter Matthew starts off with this list of who begat who that begat who that brought all the way down to the man Christ Jesus and it starts off strong until it comes to the first recorded matriarch so so let's just for a few minutes here tonight let's let's study the matriarchs that are found in the lineage the genealogy of of the man Christ Jesus the genealogy begins to falter when Tamar is mentioned what's what's Tamar doing here why not mention Sarah or at least Leah I mean at least at least they were good girls right didn't Tamar solicit a sexual relationship with her own father in-law wasn't that wasn't that how Perez her son was conceived come on let's let's think about the backstory of Tamar she she was a woman biblical Scholars think that she was a Canaanite who had been widowed by two of judah's sons and had had been promised to the third and the youngest son named Shayla Judah fearing for the life of the third son and I kind of get that right there you know the it's kind of like a Black Widow situation if you will his first two Sons first son married to Tamar she leaves us and the the next son he has married to Tamar he leaves us and now of the sudden his youngest son his youngest son is now supposed to be Shaya is supposed to be promised to the same woman and and so I believe fearing the life and of this youngest son and he kind of holds off and doesn't allow him to marry Tamar and and Tamar you know here she is now she's stuck in a hard place because she has been returned to her father's house to wait for Shayla she had no status she had no inheritance she had no social security that would ever come her way because her only route to a future was to have children and she was not a mother she was not eligible to remarry because here she is she's waiting for Shayla so here we go she takes matters into her own hands and after after judah's wife died she poses as a prostitute she's not a prostitute but she poses as a prostitute she wanted judah's Offspring Shaya was not was a preferable choice but he was not available he was denied to her so here she is and she is now propositioning herself as a prostitute never dreaming that that that the daughter-in-law is there as the prostitute she becomes pregnant with child and to make a long ugly story short this Canaanite woman becomes in the bloodline of Jesus Christ Judah had many other Sons but God chose this son from this woman to be in his lineage can you imagine that that blows my mind how how God would choose people people that that that had not not that they were just a nobody but people who had done crazy things people people like Rahab Rahab was the next one who was mentioned in the lineage of Christ and and how surprising is it that Rahab was well number one she was a gentile and number two she was again clearly a prostitute we know her as Rahab the Harlot Rahab the har now now in the New Testament we we hear this a lot we uh there was a there was a man named John who baptized people and and he's known as John the Baptist yeah Rahab for the rest of time even today for the for the rest of time she will always be known as RAB the Harlot it was her reputation it's who she was her reputation followed her name and not only a harlot but a traitor to her own people you know the story the Israelite people had had just come across the Jordan and and the very first the very first uh great obstacle they had to face was Jericho and Joshua oh the story of Joshua fighting the Battle of Jericho and the the walls of Jericho falling all began with two spies that are sent into Jericho to find out what's Jericho all about how strong are they how fortified are they what are they saying right and these these these two spies I believe God leads them to to Rahab obviously she she's a a woman of ill repute obviously she's a woman that doesn't have good morals and here she is not only a harlot but also a traitor to her own people she's the one that tells us spies listen there's fear in our hearts our hearts did melt within us when we've heard the stories of your Israelite people of of how God brought you across the Red Sea and how God fed you with Mana and I'm adding a little bit to the story but you get what what she's talking about how how your God sent over quail and how your God fed you for over 40 years and kept you and there's a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud leading you and and we heard all about your Tabernacle and I'm sure she's tell them all these things in the main subject of what she was telling them was our hearts did melt she was letting them know we're scared of you we fear you we fear your God and here she is a traitor and God would allow This Woman This Gentile woman to be within his lineage come on I just want to minister to somebody because there's somebody here today saying why am I even here look around me all these people all dressed up people wearing suits and ties and I thought you just wore those to weddings and funerals and sometimes you don't even wear them to weddings and funerals anymore maybe maybe if the president of United States comes to town I guess maybe you wear a suit and tie in his presence I don't know but people are looking around saying I didn't even know people even dressed up anymore it's a midweek service that people got that guy up there talking in the microphone he's got a suit and a tie on what what in the world and you're sitting here going if they only knew my reputation if they only knew where I had come from what I did yesterday and I'm trying to help somebody that's here tonight to realize that our God is not a respector of persons uh he's not looking at your past he doesn't care who child you are biologically he don't care who your daddy is who your mama is he don't care what your your lineage did 20 30 years ago you came from the hills of Kentucky or you came from The Valleys he doesn't he doesn't care he's looking out at people who are willing to position themselves in a place that's going to move his kingdom along he saw Rahab as a woman who he could use he he saw ra Rahab as a woman and it was Rahab the only people who survived of the people of Jericho was Rahab and her family that's the only people that survived but oh it was Rahab that married Solomon a Jew whom tradition says was one of the spies that she hid isn't that interesting and they have a son named Boaz who grows up to become a righteous and a Godly Man well speaking of bohab boabs The Third Woman in the lineage of Jesus is Ruth also a gentile and even worse she was a moabit the Hebrew word moabi or moabit means from my father this nation of people came from the daughter of lot come on do you remember that story one of Lot's daughters or actually both of his daughters get their own father drunk they they leave Sodom and Gomorrah the fire Brimstone Rains Down on Sodom and Gomorrah they're they're living in the Mountain Country and two daughters they realize hey there's no man in our life how are we going to have Offspring and these two Wicked daughters instead of waiting and allow God providing them men to marry they sleep they get their own father drunk they get lot drunk and they sleep with their own father and The Offspring is the moabit nation right they're haters of God they're haters of God's people but here we have oh here we have a God who I've already said is not a respector person he sees this woman and Ruth here she is she's of the moabit nation she's of the children of lot she has an ugly ancestral she has a horrible lineage but Jesus sees her and puts her in his bloodline why does she do it because Ruth marries Boaz and boab Boaz they have a son named Obed and a little this little known person named obit grows up and becomes the grandfather of someone you might have heard of King David and we all we know King David we love King David we understand King David we know that he was a man after God's Own Heart we know that he was a man who fulfilled all the will of God and here we have the very least likely is becoming the grandmother of this man named David oh if you can use anything Lord surely you can use me the fourth woman is not even named in the genealogy but she is identified in the genealogy we know her name but she's identified in the genealogy as uah's wife didn't even say David's wife said uah's wife she she marries David but she's not properly she doesn't properly belong to David oh it was it was it was jiah's wife Beth Sheba it was beath Sheba Who David was was looking out over the Housetop of his kingdom and looking at her as she bathed and brought her into his house and and slept with her and it was David who sent he sent he sent his he he sent Uriah himself oh out into the battlefield to be killed by his own Men by Friendly Fire we know the story of adultery and murder that took place and here The Offspring of David and Beth Sheba is a man named Solomon again in the lineage of the Messiah oh listen I do find it so interesting that God could have chose any of David's children uh if if you read through if you read through the Bible some interesting facts kind of stick out when you start reading through genealogies such as David had somewhere around 20 wives or or or concubines you don't hear about them you usually hear about basba you hear about Mel you hear about these wives but but he had some 20 wives and of those 20 wives he had countless children that God could have used but he used the son of Beth Sheba he used a son of adulterous now now listen I'm not saying that God cond condones adultery in any way but what about Mel I mean Mel was the daughter of the first king he could have easily allowed her to have a child that that could have been in his lineage it would have been the son of David right but it also would have been the grandson of Saul it he could have used anybody but he said you know what I would rather use someone who is willing to put me first and that's what be Sheba did be Sheba although she sinned she repented although the first child they had together died there was a son named Solomon and through Solomon the lineage of Jesus Christ Christ is found Abigail the wife of nabel Mel the daughter of Saul BBA the wife of Uriah he chose of all of these ba Sheba the fifth and final woman in the Gen genealogy is Mary Mary we know as the mother of Jesus who is called the Christ and everything would seem okay with Mary she's a Jew she's got a good reputation however she comes up pregnant before the official marriage takes place and her own fiance Joseph has planned the Bible says to put her away privately she some I don't know 13 between 13 and 16 years of age and she's inexperienced she's vulnerable but that's who God chooses to be in the bloodline of the savior is anybody else thankful and I'm not throwing off and I I find it interesting now I could have gone through I know there is men in the lineage of Jesus I know there's men men who who were Wicked people and I know there's some that were Sinners I I get that and I'm not throwing off on the women in the lineage but I find it interesting that the only women that are mentioned in the lineage of Jesus were these women of ill repute and I think to myself obviously there has to be a reason why God allowed these women's names to be put into his lineage why is that well it's simple it's always the least likely that God is using to do the most and to do the greatest in his kingdom every story read the stories of the Bible are so encouraging because it's not about great men doing great things it's about the David it's about the shepherd boys it's even about the samsons Samson who people people considered Samson to be probably the strongest man to ever live but he didn't look like a bodybuilder he didn't he wasn't some great giant of a man he just had the power of God within him and God used those that that everybody else thought was nothing and God did the greatest things through them and I just believe it was to give us hope today it was like that song we sang all through our life oh God if you can use anything you can use me if you can use anything you can use me it was a sarap phenician woman oh I want to preach about this is the main text of my of my message tonight it was this sarap phenician woman nameless I I said nameless oh we don't even find her name written in the Bible but she was so desperate with a need and I want to blend together and I know I'm kind of throwing a little uh I'm throwing you it's not gonna be easy I know but I'm I'm gonna go between Matthew and Mark's account of the story back and forth and and if you can keep up with me you are my hero but Mark 724 says and from fence he speaking of Jesus arose and went into the borders of Ty and sinon and entered into a house and and what have no man known it okay so he got there the Bible says because he could not be hid so what what what happened right here is is Jesus is hiding he's in hiding he's he's gone into an house in verse 25 says for a certain woman I like that right there a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean Spirit heard of him and came and fell at his feet she she found him there in the house and and the woman was a Greek a serici by nation and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter and I go to Matthew 15:22 and she Cried unto him saying have mercy on me oh Lord thou son of David my daughter is grievously vexed with the devil but he answered her not a word and his disciples came and besought him saying send her away for she crith after us and but he answered and said I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel then came she and worshiped him saying Lord help me but he answered and said it is not me to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs and she said truth Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the master's table and oh I'm thankful for the crumbs that fall from the master's table I I'm so thankful again again I I see right here we understand that that Jesus came first to save the Jews to save his people to save his bloodline but I'm so thankful for the attitude of this woman who said I realize why you're here but I still want a piece of what you've come to do I still want just a crumb of what you've come to do if you've come to seek and to save the lost I'm lost and I need you to save me I need you to help me with a miracle right here verse 20 it says then Jesus answered and said unto her oh woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou Wilt and her daughter was made whole from that very hour then I go back to Mark 7:30 and when she was come to her house she found the devil gone out and her daughter laid upon the bed do do you see how beautiful both of these accounts of uh of Matthew and Mark how they bring the story together so beautiful we have a desperate woman who's from the wrong lineage she's a gentile she she she's hated other Jews matter of fact she shows up in the Pres she comes she shows up at this house a and these Jews are like oh this woman is driving us crazy get her out of here she doesn't even belong here and The Story Goes that even Jesus now now Jesus the Bible says he was just silent I like that sometimes we just got to keep silent people saying bad stuff about us sometimes you just keep silent sometimes your actions just speak louder than your words some sometimes you say all you got to say by not saying anything at all Jesus was silent he knew why he was there but at the time she was pleading her case he was just silent but then he finally he finally says to her he says listen I I've not come for your house I I've come for the house of Israel I'm you all AR aren't aren aren't quite in line yet you we're still you're you're coming later if you will he said but I've come he said I can't cast what I brought I I brought to the children of Israel the the Jewish Nation I can't cast it down and called her here a dog she said oh truth Lord yet even I as a dog she called herself even the dogs eat of the crumbs from their master's table oh she wasn't ashamed to say God I know I'm a nothing but God if you can see me where I am oh Jesus if you can see my need I'm desperate enough for a miracle my daughter is vexed with demons I she's out of control I can't control her unless you do something with her she's not going to live she has demons that have filled her body she's out of control and this woman in her desperation she didn't care what anybody said about her she didn't care that all the disciples were trying to kick her out out of the house she didn't care that Jesus called her a dog all that went through her mind was if I'm desperate enough maybe I can just get a crumb and again I bring it back lord if you can use anything you can use me God I know I'm nothing I know I don't have some great lineage oh if you can use anything Lord you can surely use me verse 25 the gospel of Matthew but says but then she worshiped even the least likely becomes likely when they begin to worship come on think about this right here if you want to remain the same way that you entered when you leave this place it's easy just don't worship if you want to leave here if you're sick in your body or you got an issue going on in your body and I I know there's people here tonight that have that have cancer in their body that's attacking their blood cells I don't know there might be people here with leukemia there might be here with uh with diabetes sugar diabetes and and there there's there's issues going on in the body there's mental disease that wants to take control of people's minds and the enemy would say to you he just called you a dog he he just told you that that this message is not for you but somebody in this place has got to be willing to be desperate enough I've said it before desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through if we can get desperate enough we create a door where we can actually have breakthrough in our life we can actually have healing in our life we can actually have salvation in our life if we realize it's not about me it's not about my name it's not about who I am or who I am it's it's all about that I am saved I've been delivered I've been redeemed and if I could give God enough praise and give God enough worship and stop thinking about myself we could be like this woman who Jesus finally looked at and said okay I see your faith your faith is so great I see that you've come here with a real need and he was willing to move all of time when the Gentile nation was not supposed to be ministered to as of yet he said it's important enough to allow her to receive her Miracle oh my God I'm so thankful once again I know I'm not anything I know my reputation is not of anything but I'm so thankful I have a God who sees my desperation and I'm so thankful he hears My Worship and he hears my praise and he looks beyond of who I am and he says I will still give give you what you are asking for even the dogs have a chance thank God even the dogs have a chance I just believe somebody here is on the verge of a miracle he's a right now God doing Miracles right here in the present y'all hear me he's a right now God come on I know again I know so many things in our mind we have so many voices in our mind tell us to wait don't do it right now just wait till later oh God is a right now God he's a God that says if you'll worship me now if you'll praise me now if you won't get offended at me now if you won't live in your life of offense right now if you'll just give me praise and give me worship he's all right now God he will give you your Miracle lineage let's talk about lineage and I know in the in the past I I've preached this but I can't help but to continue to preach this our natural heritage is not important again our natural heritage is not important people people like say you don't know you don't know the drugs that I've been addicted to you you don't know who my mother was you don't know what kind of man my father was and and and and and I hear I hear horror stories we we got we got young people in this church that come to church all by themselves teenagers that attend the church this church Faithfully who have parents who have done some of the craziest things parents that probably even right now are are locked up somewhere parents who who who are of no reputation and I just believe a young person that's in this house and tonight and I know they're probably up they're probably up in our Strong Tower youth service but they need to be given hope because it's not about who their parents are it's not about who their grandparents are 2 Corinthians 5:17 says therefore If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold All Things become new we got to stop allowing s to bring up our physical biological Heritage uh he wants to always remember remind us of where we've been and what we've done but I've got news for you Jesus is not looking at that if it's been covered if it's been covered by the blood if you've been baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins the Bible says Psalm 107 says let the redeemed of the Lord say so let the redeemed of the Lord say so it's not my past it's my present it's my future that's what I believe God is looking down upon if you re receive the spirit of God you are now heir of God we've got gold running through our veins we now have a spiritual Heritage that cancels out our natural heritage and I I know I've told this story before but but but but I was doing some some research on on thoroughbred race horses and when you purchase a thoroughbred race horse you do purchase their past his parents Define his worth a stallion and a mayor come together and have a cult somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000 is a cost of a cult's heritage it's not its color it's not its strength it's not its size you are buying the heritage of that cult if you look at that cult when that cult is born and you y'all have watched y'all have watched animal planted as well as I have and some of you might even raise horses I don't know but if you see that cult born that thing's wobbling around that thing's ugly that thing's slimy it can't hardly walk it's going down trying to get back up again falling all over itself you're not $400,000 doesn't purchase that $400,000 listen when when you're buying thoroughbred race horses you've already bought it before it's born you're waiting on that thing to be born and if you're standing there and you see that thing get born you don't care what it's doing when it's born all you know is Mama and Dad has been winning some some races and been making some money and I'm willing to invest $400,000 because I know what the offspring of mom and dad are going to produce and so it's Heritage $400,000 well let me tell you something we have been bought with a price for the very least likely we have become absolutely the most likely now those that were the very least likely can enter the kingdom of God thank you to the saraph phenician woman thank you for for not being silent and not caring that Jesus was silent and gave you a wrong answer thank you for proceeding to keep on worshiping even when Jesus said the miracle was not for you for Romans 14 and 17 says for the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink this is what this means eating and drinking was all about levitical law it was not the law of the blood Hine it was not the Jewish law that Jesus was looking for it was the law of the spirit he was looking for have you been born of the water and have you been born of the Spirit uh it wasn't meat and drink it wasn't levitical law but it was righteousness it's peace uh it's joy of the Holy Ghost please notice that there's not a bloodline directly to to Jesus in your Bible in Matthew it records of the bloodline the lineage of Jesus but it goes to Joseph Joseph is the last of the lineage the husband of Mary his seed was not the seed that produced the Christ there was no bloodline there Joseph was only Jesus's stepfather if you will not his biological father we all understand that Jesus was born of a virgin birth it was the seed of the Holy Ghost that overshadow Mary to give us Jesus which tells me that the bloodline is not important in the physical but only in the spiritual if Jesus was born outside the bloodline of his lineage then just maybe that means I can be born outside the bloodline of my lineage if it was an adoption Jesus by Joseph it gave him the same rights as a natural-born son in this first century come on think about this Joseph not the biological father The Stepfather of the Son of God or the son of man Jesus Christ The Stepfather of that young child he adopted him just as we are adopted it's it's spir it's all spiritual we got to get out of the idea that it's physical he was as much the son of King David by adoption as we would have been the sons of King David with the same biological bloodline it is through our adoption that we transfer from servants to become sons and as Sons we become hes isn't it in Galatians 4 chapter 4 that says but when the fullness of time was come God was sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons and because you are Sons God has sent forth the spirit of the son into your hearts crying ABA father that's the Holy Ghost wherefore Thou Art no more a servant but a son and if a son than an heir of God through Christ uh I believe we need to take just a moment uh and celebrate that we the very least likely have become adopted we become heirs we now have a future we now have a Heritage because our heritage doesn't come from our biological bloodline but now our new Heritage is that of the Son of God the son of is of Jesus Christ righteousness has to do with our relationship with God it's upward peace has to do with our relationship with others that that's outward y'all see this right here so again righteousness that's God peace that's our relationship with others and then Joy that's how we see our ourselves righteousness peace Joy it's all found in the Holy Ghost if we can ever figure that those three things out if we can ever have a walk with God righteousness if we can find peace with all men peace and if we can find the joy within us uh the joy that allows us to live a life a life that says I am able God has given me the power God has given me his spirit God has given me his name righteousness peace and joy and the Holy Ghost it's all a spiritual spiritual Heritage there is a sickness in the kingdom of God today of people who do not know their identity who the devil has taken great pleasure in convincing them that they're just not good enough woo righteousness and peace are not easy but they oh they are ordained or they're obtained with the help of the Holy Ghost but joy is the Unseen Battlefield listen righteousness and peace it's not all that hard it's really not that hard when when you serve a God Like We Serve it's not that hard to really live a righteous life it's not peace when you when we have a church like this church we have the greatest people in all the world peace is not that hard to obtain but why is it the joy is what people lack sometimes most it's that within us it's within it's it's within right here that people lose their Joy but oh god with your Holy Ghost and stand stand to your feet with me because I I just believe tonight I I believe there's people in the house tonight that if you will realize who you really are if you've been baptized if you've been filled with the Holy Ghost if you have been rep if you've repented of your sins now that's a lifestyle if you you live a lifestyle of repentance and then you have washed you've had your sins washed away you've been covered by the blood of Jesus you've been given his name in baptism and then you've been given his Spirit you've been given the authority oh God help us to realize who we are come on somebody just lift up your hands if you're thankful if you truly understand who you are oh come on I wish we just for a few minutes we can just find a time right here oh just to pray this prayer Pray this prayer than God help me look beyond my past help me look Beyond The Faults in my life Lord I'm so thankful that you look Bey on my faults and you saw my need H I'm so thankful Lord when I was unlovable Lord you easily Found Love to Love Me Lord when everybody else gave up on me when everybody else that is threw the towel on me and said he's hopeless I'm so thankful that you love me enough when everybody else got on social social media and told what a horrible person I was God I'm so thankful Lord that you saw fit Lord to save me oh God I'm so thankful Lord there's people in this place Lord that you brought up off a bar stool Lord God they would spend their Friday paycheck at a nightclub on a stool Lord they would spending on beer Lord they would spend it on women God they would spend it on they would spend it Lord God all week long they would make a check and they would waste it oh God on Friday night but God you saw fit to love them Lord we're so thankful Lord God I just believe tonight somebody in this place you're here tonight and you're saying God maybe you can use me God maybe you can speak life into my situation maybe you can speak healing into my body come on if that's you right now I wish you would lift up your voice and begin to worship uh like the saraph phenician woman began to worship God I know you're hearing voices that are saying get her out of here uhuh get him out of here uhuh he's annoying he keeps on asking the same question over and over again he's prayed the same prayer over and over again get him out of here he's annoying me I know you're hearing those voices in your head but please understand you're in the presence of a savior you're in the presence of a deliverer you're in the presence of a Healer and he loves you he wants to use you he wants to give you a Ministry that you could in fact and affect other people with his gospel oh come on somebody pray this prayer say God if you can use anything Lord you can use me Lord if you can use anything God you can use me a lonely richet oh undone but God you can use me I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place I wish you would allow him to minister to you on a Wednesday night come on this is Bible study night but I wish you would allow God to minister to you right now you've got royal blood flowing through your veins uh come on find your identity tonight uh if you don't have the Holy Ghost this would be a perfect opportunity to receive it if you've never been baptized in Jesus name this would be a perfect time to do itth because you could have the same thing I have uh oh I've got royal blood flowing through my veins uh it's all about my present and my future has nothing to do with my past I'm so thankful oh God you look down at the least of these and you've given us hope come on let's end by singing this if you can use anything Lord you can use me come on sing it like you meet it come on give yourself damn right here take my hands Lord take my touch my heart touch my heart if you can use anything come on choir I need you come on come on three part harmony make this beautiful oh sing if you can use anything Lord come on S right quiet I want to hear you oh come on lift up your hands and sing this right here take my hands Touch My Heart Lord speak through me if you can use anything come on just one more time just one more time everybody sing if you can use anything come on Pastor Carpenter I want you to close us out tonight