The Corner Principle | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson

turn in your Bibles with me to Leviticus chapter 19 and verse 9 uh don't usually take my text out of Leviticus but it's going to work this morning uh welcome to All Nations Sunday and oh so glad my friend dran young uh thank you you and brother Isaac Cowen uh two of two of my favorite people just musicians songwriters uh singers um aren't they a bling to the body of Christ did you not enjoy the ministry brother drayen Young Brother Isaac calden amen the sanctuary choir uh the worship team they worked hard got here last night and uh brother drayen had taught a few songs of them you're going to hear them again tonight they'll be back tonight looking forward to that and uh God is just doing such great things matter of fact uh brother Zach was telling you about our our our district youth retreat and I couldn't I couldn't help but when I was worshiping the altar I looked down and I found one of these right here I found me a bobby pin in the Altar and to you youngsters that doesn't mean a thing but I remember growing up when I was going to youth convention when I was a teenager man you'd see these things flung all over the place and that just gives you I'm going to keep this this is just a little souvenir from youth retreat that we had if you were here uh you saw me we just had a just Holy Ghost time uh brother Ivy uh thank you for the ministry oh man two great messages we just had we had all I think we had an Al an hour altar Services both both Thursday and Friday we were in The Altar for well over an hour and that just that just lets you know there's a response to the word of God there's a worship there's praise and I'm I'm going to keep the bobby pin because that's just going to be something that I'm going to have to put up with my souvenirs because we had just a wonderful youth retreat Leviticus 19-9 uh says this it says and when you reap the Harvest of your land Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy Harvest and then Deuteronomy 24:19 it's going to be on the boards and you don't have to get there because you're probably not going to get there before I read it Bible simply says when thou cutest down thine harvest in thy field and hath forgot a sheath in the field Thou shalt not again fetch it it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless for the Widow that the Lord thy God May bless thee in all the work of thine hands we're going to talk about today my message title for our All Nations Sunday is this simply the corner principle the corner principle I'm excited I'm excited about God's word I'm excited what God has given me for you today could you just put your Bibles down come on let's lift up our hands to Heaven let's just pray God help us to receive your word Lord your word is already anointed Lord God your word Lord God it's for us Lord It's the only thing Lord God that's going to save us Lord is your word God I pray today Lord God that every heart would be open that by the end of this message Lord God there would be a response to your word today God I'm just believing Lord today Lord that people came here Lord somebody is here maybe a guest in the house is here they felt your presence they're wondering what in the world is happening in this place Lord God Show Yourself Strong Show Yourself Mighty and let your power just fill this place during this message today we ask this all in Jesus name clap your hands up to the Lord come on give him a praise one more time before you're seated oh we bless you in the house today and we thank you for we already felt in this place and you may be seated in the house I told you a little bit about our missions uh University that took place this week Monday Tuesday and Wednesday we were at Whit Stone in and uh that's in Kingston Tennessee just about 45 minutes from here if you've never been uh you need to check it out it's beautiful that's right on the on the Tennessee River there it's just a it's a gorgeous Place uh it's kind of a bed and breakfast type place and we had we had some 50 people at World missions University uh it kind of serves a dual purpose uh we train missionaries there and uh we have newly appointed missionaries that come through uh we have veteran missionaries that come to help us train and then we also have uh what we call missions interest students and these students range from all different ages it could be high school students all the way up till we have middle-aged uh married couples that come that feel the call into World missions but they just don't know what the next step is and uh this week let me tell you something we had a a great time matter of fact I'm going to I'm going to share some of the stories and some of the Back stories and testimonies uh that took place at World missions University but what it is is it's it's it's our only feeder program to our world missions Department all right and when I say feeder program you're probably thinking of a a Major League Baseball they have what are called feeder Farms all right they have they have Farm clubs and with a farm system and a farm club it refers to the minor leagues where these these these uh uh players come uh uh to to learn to develop their skills they obviously there's potential there's potential seen within their ability but they're not quite ready for the major leagues yet so they come into the minor leagues and I I'm not a big baseball guy and so I'm not going deep into this only thing I know are those tickets are a lot cheaper to go watch those games right you go up to the smokies and and go watch a game those are those are Farm teams those are feeder teams for for the major leagues well um we've decided uh for for years now that we need a good feeder system right or a feeder club or a feeder Farm into our world missions Department because as of right now again World missions University is a three-day event but I'm thankful for the training center we're about to start right here in marville Tennessee that's going to be a feeder system into our world missions Department uh and and and I guess I really want to kind of uh being all nations Sunday we're doing two things here and I'm going to kind of talk about that again here in the in the next few minutes we're going to talk about what we're doing as as a church for World missions but I also want to really focus today on the fact that we want to see right here from this church from from from about three miles up the road I want to see a training center in place that we're going to see there's going to be fruit now listen I'm going to take just a few minutes to stay right here because uh World missions I believe we're going to we're going to we're going to graduate Church Planters they're going to go across this world across this country and plant churches we're going to have youth pastors and children's workers we're going to have music directors I believe we're going to have production technicians who are going to be birthed right here in marille Tennessee and I'm excited about that I want to see that and I know you're excited about that but I want to cast vision for that during our All Nation Sunday because today what I really want to focus on is our world missions program we've got to feed our world missions program so that is that is my my focus um we we got to invest in people's burdens we got to we got to invest in people's burdens I I I got to I got to meet about six or seven uh uh couples at World missions University and I wish I had time to tell every story but but let me let me tell you about the couples that I'm looking at that I'm I'm realizing need not just 3 days of training but they need they need a good nine months of training uh they need a good two semesters of real Hands-On training uh beautiful young couple even from the tri state district here uh the wife is movian and which is in Europe which is kind of in the Russia Europe area of of the world in movia she her family and she speaks movian and her family has has has come up into the apostolic church right here in East Tennessee and she and her husband feel a burden to go to movia to start a mission there and it's people like this if you could just hear the testimonies of how they got into church and and how the burden grips them if you could if you could hear about the couple from Ohio that just spent about six to eight weeks in Uganda uh we have a mission there we have a missionary there that they're in their 70s and they're ready to retire and it's a great work and we need somebody to take that over I thank God that there's a burden on a couple that says I want to go to Uganda I'm talking about a place it's not a beautiful country it's a third world nation they're not going to live there's not going to be pleasures of life in Uganda however thank God for the burden of young people that have tears coming down their faces and saying I felt God the moment I touched ground in Uganda I believe God wants us in Uganda I met a young lady that's attending the University of Kentucky in Lexington uh and she feels a strong call again to Africa and her major is Agricultural and farming isn't it awesome she actually she was one to God while at University and has already started feeling the burden to go into World Mission she's already feeling the burden to go to Africa and to take her degree there and to do something great for God another couple from Indiana they they were homeless before they got in church they lived in homeless shelters they lived in their car and what did you know that now they're feeling oh they're feeling a burden to go to third world Nations they're feeling a burden to go into a place like Nairobi Kenra Kenya that has a slum District they said we're not scared they said we're not scared of that and I got to interview all of these all of these students and I wish again I wish I had time for you to hear every single story but I'm excited about our training center because we're going to bring people like that in and we're going to give them what they need we're going to give them the model that they need to take the gospel into all parts of the world and you're going to be a part of that you're going when I say we it's going to be you that's going to do this but the only thing we lack and I I thank God for Wu but the thing that we lack the most is the feeder form is the training for young people to go into the field but but I want I want to take this a step back because we got to begin to talk about the Great Commission because it's not just the students of WMU that have been called to be discip discipl makers we've all been called matter of fact Matthew 28:19 the word go is the first word of verse 19 in Matthew 28 it says go ye therefore and teach All Nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Ghost once again Jesus gives a command in Mark 16:15 or this is Mark's version of it he says go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature the Holy Ghost it's our primary purpose it's not just to make us feel good it's not just to give us Goosebumps when the choir sings a song that we really like them to sing it's not just when the drums begin to beat and and we enjoy the bobby pins flinging out of the hair that's not what the Holy Ghost is for it's not just to able us to speak in tongues the Holy Ghost is to enable us to be a witness to our family to our friends to our co-workers to our neighbors it's to enable us to be a witness throughout the whole world we're Believers we're born again Acts chapter 1 and verse 8 already read but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you we talked about this last Sunday baptism in Jesus name gives us the authority but I'm thankful for the power that's given to us by the in feeling of the Holy Ghost and ye shall be Witnesses watch this right here Witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in Judea y'all see that both is a connector between two things both in Jerusalem and in all Judea but then the gospel doesn't stop there because then it says and oh and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth you see let's talk about this right here because there's two ways of really understanding or viewing this passage right here and let I agree with both of them the first way is this we begin with the immediate sphere of influence which is our family right our Jerusalem is is our family those that are closest to us and then we we leave that sphere of influence and then our friends and our acquaintances become our Judea follow me here then we have people on the outside of our immediate comfort zone they they don't look like us right they they don't maybe think like us or or or vote like us right or have the same moral compass that we do we call this Samaria and then finally we have those that are culturally different than us they have different languages they have different values they have uh to there's totally different things that they value they live thousands of miles away down down down under under down down under and these people are in the uttermost we heard it tonight already this morning these are the uttermost parts of the earth and and I believe that view but I also believe this view of Acts 1 and8 which simply is a location view our Jerusalem is right here in marville in Blunt County and this is where where where Jesus said hey you got to start right here where you are are start right here in Jerusalem start right here in Blunt County and then you start to reach into Judea and those are surrounding counties and we're doing that that's severe County in Knox County right and lden County we're starting to reach into Judea those surrounding areas but then you have Samaria I believe that's that that right there is the United States of America that's leaving the Bible Belt and and putting churches in all of the cities and all of the states uh in in the world or in America but then the uttermost part of the earth that's our world missions overseas notice notice that that I that I put the word our before each of these because everyone's Jerusalem everyone's Judea everyone's Samaria everyone's uttermost part of the world is different right we we understand uh that this location here this location it all depends on where you are matter of fact when Jesus was talking about the uttermost part of the the Earth you know what he's probably talking about he's probably talking about America I mean Columbus hadn't sailed the ocean blue yet so when Jesus was talking about leaving Jerusalem and then and then we're going we're going to go into Judea and then into Samaria and then oh into the uttermost parts of the earth I believe he was talking about America and I'm thankful that the gospel has reached America amen it would probably be hard to believe back then if you talk to the disciples it would probably be very hard to believe back then uh that there was a place across uh which I know at that time there there was no Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean and they hadn't even discovered that far away yet but they would have never dreamed they would have never dreamed that there would be an America that now we send out more missionaries than any other country of the world right but now we got to look at that because now we have our Jerusalem and and here it is right here it's not real hard the challenge at hand Jerusalem is not that hard matter of fact I believe God is helping us reach our community I thank God that we're reaching our family members here in the city of marille in in blun county and I thank God for Judea I I thank God for our aquaintances our friends I I thank God for the cultures that surround us oh I thank God for our Spanish work that we've started right here brother and sisters so do you and your team I thank God that we have I don't know we have from 50 to 80 uh uh Spanish speaking people in every one of our services thank God for that thank God for bringing other cultures together I love it oh we're working on our Mandarin Church matter of fact right now I'm I'm being translated into Mandarin we have we have a beautiful Chinese culture uh that's here uh right here in marville that are listening some are in the house and some are watching by way of Facebook I'm thankful to God for Judea I'm thankful for Samaria I'm thankful that we reach Across America oh but the uttermost part of the earth this is the hard place to reach let's just let's just be honest the the the uttermost part of the earth that that's the place that's the place it's hard to get to that that's the place that that that you and I oh it's hard to go because you know why we got to be here we got families to raise here we got jobs to attend here but I love the solution we have to act one and8 I love our commitment to the Great Commission it's that we go by giving we leave this place every Sunday when the offering is received uh we leave this place uh and we go to foreign lands by giving oh I thank God for those who leave Jerusalem and relocate to Judea because we need churches outside Blunt County I'm thankful for the Fallon family they got the whole Holy Ghost up the hill and they all they started teaching Bible studies and now we have a thriving Church in Cleveland Tennessee aren't you thankful for those that see the need to start churches even outside the county thank God for that thank God for those that leave the state and go into Samaria I thank God for for brother for brother and sister doson who years ago left this church and and started a brand new work in hawasi Georgia and now they have a great Church in Georgia I'm thankful for those that leave and go to Samaria I thank God for those that leave Jerusalem and go to the uttermost part of the earth I'm thankful for the names oh God I thank you for the names I'm thankful for Ben and Becca Rodriguez who are who are in Mexico a young lady out of this youth group I thank God they saw the burden and saw the need to leave Jerusalem and start Works across this world thank God but if everyone has the burden to leave home who disciples our families who disciples your children who disciples my children that listen that's my first calling before anyone else my family must be saved while my girls are still in the home I am their spiritual priest I've got to make sure I'm the missionary of my home I got to make sure that my girls are safe I got to make sure that they're raised up and they're brought up in truth and they're brought up to love God and understand what they believe and why they believe what they believe if everyone leaves Jerusalem who reaches out to over a 100,000 Souls right here in Blunt County come on think about this I I'm all about acts 1 and8 I believe oh God I believe in the uttermost part of the Earth but how how do the missionaries afford to stay in the field if there's nobody in Jerusalem working a 9 to-5 job we are right we are the supporters of missions I I'm thankful for I don't know over over $700,000 that left this church in 2023 in supporting missions both home and abroad it supported works all across this world why am I thankful for that because of you because you see the need to stay in Jerusalem and reach those in Jerusalem and make sure those in the uttermost parts of the Earth are financed and and have homes and have Vans who can go pick up people I'm thankful for ausa Free Riders who are who are purchasing motorcycles from missionaries so they can go up into these up into these tribal regions where you can't even get a car or a minivan thank God for you because you're right here in Jerusalem and the best thing we can do is to go by giving Matthew chapter 10 41 it says this and I love this right here it says he that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward verse 42 and whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward and King James really made that sound difficult but let me another version let me read it from another version to makes it a whole lot clear it says whosoever receives a prophet because he is God's Messenger will share a prophet's reward and whoever welcomes a good and godly man because he follows me will also share his reward and whoever gives a cup of cold water to one of my humble disciples I promise you he will not go unrewarded come on somebody you got to remember second Kings chapter 4 you got to remember the story of the shunamite woman you got to remember the prophet Elisha that would come by her house and she recognized that he was a good man she saw that he was a good man and that he was a man of God and that he was a prophet and so not to receive anything she thought husband we ought to do something nice for this man and her husband said why don't you bake him some bread why don't you cook him a meal and I don't know I don't know what their finances look like all I know was she must have been a good cook because every time Elisha came through town he always stopped by this family's house he always sat down for a meal he always sat down for dinner but then she took it a step further and she said brother Roger it's not good enough just to feed him we need to give him a bed we need to give him a room we need to put a we need to put a little a little a little room onto our house we need to add an addition on for the man of God and wouldn't you know they put a bed and a table and a lamp and every time the man of God came through town you know where he went he went to the shunamite ladi's house and there her and her husband received him in and he would go and he would stay in his own this is where evangelist quarter started now listen I'm not oh if you're watching today I'm sorry but I'm not a big I'm not a big fan of evangelist quarters I'm just going to tell you I'm just going to tell you my wife and I we we we often call them pent hostal because this is what normally happens normally they like like a church we'll find like this this this decrepit Sunday school room on the back side with a drippy faucet and a little shower in the corner and then they'll put a little little little little sign that says welcome evangelist and listen I know I know we got missionaries and I'm sorry because our missionaries there used to stay and I listen listen I I was the regional Field Supervisor for Africa I have been to some of the the worst third will places you ever believe so don't don't judge me I'm I'm just simply saying sister MSA brother James thank you for building a house and putting a beautiful room in your house for missionaries th thank you for not allowing it to be just an afterthought like oh we got this musty smelling area in our basement that we could just put our missionaries in some of y'all judge of me and God forgive you you I'm just saying because this woman on purpose renovated her house and added a room onto her house for the man of God she wasn't looking for a blessing but because she was willing to bless the man of God and to go above and beyond not just cooking and thank God if you cook I love you already but thank God she took it even a step further than cooking and said it's GNA cost me something we're going to add an addition onto our house it's going to be expensive but I want to bless the man of God and because she wanted to bless the man of God God rewarded her for blessing the man of God sister P the man of God said hey ask ask that that sweet shite woman ask her what is she in need of exactly and she said and I love this right here she's so humble she says I'm in need of nothing we have everything anything we can imagine we already have it we're we're blessed already she said oh except one thing she said I'm Barren I can't have children and the Prophet The Prophet saido by this time nine months from now I paraphrase a little bit but he said this time nine months from now you're going to have a little baby boy and she looked at the prophet and she pointed at the prophet and she said oh you better not be telling me a story you better not be messing with me this is English version you better not be messing with me and he said oh no you just wait there's a promise coming down your dusty road there's a promise coming to your womb uh I've given you a promise right now because you rewarded and you blessed the man of God I've coming to bless your home and where you could not have children I'm going to give you a son I'm going to give you Offspring so sure enough she has a baby boy a beautiful baby boy and that boy grows up in the field with his father but one day that boy came sick and one day that boy died but this shite woman was smart enough to know somebody go find the prophet somebody go find the man of God I'm going to put this boy that is lifeless that is not breathing his heart has stopped I'm going to put him on the bed of the prophet I prepared my own Miracle I've already prepared my own Miracle I'm going to set him in the place that I gave to the man of God and wouldn't you know the man of God came uh and he laid upon the boy mouth upon his mouth body upon his body and he breathed and when he breathed that boy came back to life the Bible says I can't explain it but the Bible says he sneezed seven times and he started breathing and here you have a woman oh she didn't build the room uh to receive a blessing but oh my God because she did it on purpose uh and because she did it intentionally and because she left the corners of her field available to the man of God oh I'm about to preach in just a moment about the principle of the corners I'm so thankful in this church today we have people we have saints of God who love missions so much you not only give you not only give but you pray for them uh you not only pray for them but you give your homes for them you not only give your homes for them but you buy them Vans and you buy them Church buildings and in Russia right now there's a house being built outside of St Petersburg or Russia I'm talking about a country that's at War and there's a house being built because of you over $200,000 they came into this place because a missionary to Russia just simply said I wish I had a home to live in and this church responded and we stood to our feet and we began to give like we've never given before and I believe we're blessed because of it come on somebody look around look around you God has blessed this church we're growing like we've never grown before we're larger than we've ever been we're discipling more PE did you see how many Bible studies have been taught since January the 1st God has been so good to us woo come on I'm thankful I'm thankful for people of God who bless the prophet because this is what happens when you bless the disciple Jesus said when you just give a when you just give a cup of cold water to one of my humble disciples he said listen oh don't you listen there's a judgment day coming and for some people Judgment Day is a scary day brother drayen but for others Judgment day is going to be a good day for other people for people oh that are missions givers and supporters of prophets in our supporters of missionaries and our supporters of discipl makers uh all for people like that on Judgment Day they're not going to walk up with their head down they're not going to walk up shaking in their boots oh no they're going to walk up and they're going to receive a crown they're going to receive a prophet reward they're going to receive a disciples reward because of the support I'm so thankful I'm so thankful we are in Jerusalem and we go by giving so here we go I want to conclude I'm not going to preach much longer but I want to conclude with my title and I'm going to finish preaching about the corner principle you see there's a phrase and you've heard this don't cut Corners y'all heard that you know what that means it's an idiom it simply means that man if you start taking shortcuts right the quality the standards everything lowers when you start taking shortcuts on things that you know you ought to do in the extent of it but I'm not preaching about this idiom this morning I just say don't cut Corners because in Leviticus chapter 19 and we read this but I want I want to kind of study just for a moment verse number nine I want to take just a little bit of time and I want us to understand why they did what they did and why this principle still applies to us today and when ye reap the Harvest of your land Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of the field neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy Harvest okay so so what he's simply saying here is is if you have a a square field or a rectangle field you you are to you are to plow and harvest in a circle so that the corners the Four Corners the people in need would know that's where I go to find my food that's where I go to clean matter of fact it even said you know if you're Gathering the Harvest do a do a poor job at Gathering the Harvest that's that's what he's saying right here and thou shalt not glean thy Vineyard now let's go into the great Vineyard neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy Vineyard Thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger I am the Lord your God what he's simply saying here is yeah you're going to you're going to gather these clusters of grapes but intentionally on purpose leave some on the vine because there's those that are going to follow you that can't afford the field they they can't afford they might be widows they they might be people that are helpless or or I would take it a step further it might be somebody like a missionary that's not allowed to work in their field they they go to foreign lands and they can't get work visas because they're not of that of that nation and so all they have is maybe a visitor's visa they're not allowed to work they they can't go to a 9 to-5 job even if they wanted to and we don't want them to because we want them to disciple the nation so with that thought in mind now look with me in Deuteronomy 24 and this is very similar we read this verse 19 and when thou cutest down thy harvest in thy field and Hast forgot a sheath for so so you're bringing they're bundling these sheaves together bringing in the sheaves remember that song yeah young people like what sheath what is that so so they're bundling they're bundling whether it's barley or whatever it is they're bundling and it's saying if you are bringing your wagon back full of sheeps and one or two fall out of the wagon don't stop do not go back and get that sheath leave it in the field and thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless for the Widow and that the Lord May bless thee Oho I like that in all the work of thine hands verse 20 when thou beatest thine Olive Tree now let's go to the olives we went to the grapes now we're going to the olives Thou shalt not go over the boughs again it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless for the Widow is this kind of we're driving this home here oh okay and then when thou gather us The Grapes of the vineyard Thou shalt not glean it afterwards it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the Widow so in the in the Book of Ruth I love this story right here in the Book of Ruth we find this Principle as it's played out and we're going to go to Ruth chapter 2 we're just having a little bible study we're okay we're okay we'll preach Pastor Hammond you preach tonight Pastor Hamm's preach tonight he's going to we we'll we'll just we'll have Bobby pin's flying but this not what this is about right here we got to get this principle because if we don't catch this principle we might have bobby pins flying but but we're not gonna be blessed right here we go Ruth 2:17 so she gleaned in the field until even and beat out that she had gleaned and it was about an epha of barley and she took it up we talking about Ruth here went into the City and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned and she brought forth and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed and her mother-in-law said unto her how many love your mother-in-laws mother-in-law said unto her I lost my place where hast thou gleaned today and where where roughest thou Blessed Be he that did take knowledge of Thee okay what we got to understand right here is that that that Ruth gleaned a lot she saiding who who is it who field are you at that you got this much and Ruth showed her mother-in-law with whom she wrought and said the man's name with whom I wrought today is Boaz and Naomi Naomi saith under under her daughter-in-law Blessed Be he of the Lord who ha not left off his kindness to the living and the dead and Naomi said unto her the man is near of kin unto us one of our next Kinsmen and Ruth the moabit said he said unto me also Thou shalt keep fast by my young men until they have ended all thy Harvest and Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law it is good my daughter that thou go out with his maidens and and they meet thee not in any other field she said go to boaz's field so she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of The Barley Harvest and of wheat Harvest and dwelt with her mother-in-law let let me explain what's Happening Here the the the landowners have not been asked what watch this right here have not been asked to give charity do youall see this they've not been asked to to glean their whole field and then give a portion to the poor that's not what's happened here they've simply been asked to leave right leave a portion of the field because why I I like this right here and we might need to learn this in our society because these women who don't own fields are still doing the same work that everyone else is doing right it just kind of makes sense what's happening is they're being taught to work if you're going to eat you got to work so so see what's happening here the the principle is beautiful and I'm so thankful and and I like this principle because you know why we have some of the hardest working missionaries you've ever seen I promise you our missionaries are working from sun up to sun down and then in between and so right here is beautiful because it's not like it's not like we are just giving charity today when we give our missions offering when we're about to support this training center when we raise over $700,000 to to to support this this training center what we have left to raise it's not just giving charity we are investing we're investing in the fact that we're going to have instructors working hard to train students we're going to be bringing in people they're going to be working hard the fields have got to be gleaned this is not just something we're not just sending money off for water in a foreign nation and I'm not against that I'm simply saying we are giving but people are working in order to receive what we're investing amen so here we have we provide the corners of our Fields so that they might labor so here in Matthew 6 and33 this is where this all comes to play and we're going to see this come to play but it says but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you to you what things the things that sometimes a lot of people worry about he's simply saying if you seek first the kingdom of God well God if I give up the corners of my field I may not be able to pay my bills if I give up the corners of my Fields I'm not going to make the salary that I made last year if I give up the corners of my field my kids may not get to drive the cars they think they're going to drive when they turn 16 and 17 but God is saying if you just put me first uh if you seek first the kingdom of God if you put me first in your life first and foremost he said I'll add this other stuff it's nothing to me I can add it to you easily but first what I need is I need a field that you're willing to follow a principle where you don't cut the corners we've got to support missions on on purpose watch watch watch how Boaz I I'm almost done but watch how Boaz was intentional with his investment y'all ready for this intentional with his investment Ruth 2:5 we're going to back up a little bit and when she was risen up to glean this is talking about the lovely Ruth and I don't know if I told you this but she was goodlooking Boaz commanded I got proof right here Boaz commanded his young men saying woo let her glean even among the Sheep this is a smart dude he said he said now listen I know everybody else has the corners he said but this this one you let her get up in the middle of the field he said and reproach her not or whatever you do don't stop her and let verse 16 and let fall also some of the hand folds a purpose for her and leave them that she may glean them and rebuke her not verse 17 so she gleaned in the field unto evening and beat out that she had gleaned and it was about an epha a barley oh my goodness do you see what's happening here we have a man who's saying on purpose I want to give to this need I'm going to drop handfuls not on accident not because they fell out of of the cart bring them back to the barn but I'm going to drop handfuls on purpose he said I want you servants when you see her coming when you see that missionary coming help me here when you see that missionary coming when you see that Prophet coming when you see that evangelist coming when you see that missions America Pastor coming when you see them coming I want you to drop I want you to see him and just drop things on purpose because in your heart you know there's a reason why I give there's a reason why oh help me today there's a reason why I give there's a reason New Zealand needs a vehicle when they drop and when they land in New Zealand I'm believing the irwins are going to be able to raise that money so when they land in New Zealand they're going to be able to purchase a vehicle God help them in Jesus name but it's going to have to take place on purpose the way we support you may be seated I'm almost done I promise you I'll have you stand in just a moment but the way woo the way we're going to support is by giving the missions and today and listen normally normally we give out pledge cards and what I'm going to ask you today please I talked to Pastor Carpenter he said just ask the people please please continue giving what you're giving you're already given so much you're given monthly you're given weekly if you will this year just just continue just commit to just continue giving that but today we feel so strongly about uh this training center uh we feel so strongly about not just hoping missionaries go to the field uh not just hoping that God somehow provides a way and provides Education and Training for them but God help us raise up a training center where we can look out and say because of First Apostolic Church of marille because of their giving because they intentionally dropped oh the Harvest in front of these young people they're now in Foreign Fields and we have churches all across this world does that excite anybody that one day you could be standing in front of pearly gates and meet people that went to church at a place where missionaries were trained right here in marville Tennessee oh that excites me that does something for me we're looking for a training center oh to stand your feet stand your feet I'm done music come we're looking for a training saying this listen to me this is not a Bible College let me let me look at the camera the movement Apostolic Training Center is not in competition with any of our Apostolic Bible colleges brother Carson you keep on doing what you're doing you're doing a mighty fine job every single Bible listen I'm an IBC graduate every single Bible College keep on teaching theology soteriology man get them in Psychology get a oh teacher Ephesus in 1 Corinthians second Corinthians I remember Old Testament survey New Testament survey christology teach teach teach teach teach give them a diploma I'm for that look at me I'm for that give him a diploma I pray that you get accredit if you're not already accredited and you're an Apostolic Bible CL I pray accreditation comes your way cuz I believe it's I believe in having good professional apostolics on the pews but we are not in competition listen with a Bible College our our win with the training center brother Schnitzer is not a diploma on a wall again I thank God for I thank God for education I do not throw off on the education I thank God for education but church family please catch the vision of Pastor Carpenter myself Pastor Hammond Pastor no please catch our vision we want to see people in the field we want to see people in the field it's not good enough listen it's not good enough just to know theology or understand christology or understand hermeneutics it's not good good enough God help us to launch people out of this training center that when they graduate they already know what country they're going to brother Justin they already know what city they're headed to they already know what church they're going to be a youth pastor at they already know what church they're plan on going to to be a a children's worker a children's Minister a children's Pastor they already have a church needing them to come and and Lead their worship team they already have a church that needs them to come run sound and production and lights and media and all those things that go along with it because every single one of those tracks are needed in the kingdom of God but first and foremost if there is a track that's higher than every other track of our training center God help us to send forth labors into the thn fields it might not be any of us or it might be we might have some young people that feel it we're here supporting oh yes we are we're here here we're here purchasing training centers we're here we're going to be building dorms we've got overtime we going to have to buy some land that's that's adjacent to our property of the training center God knows we need Jerusalem working hard to raise up the training center but God if there's something oh I feel in my heart we have not had a feeder in the world missions in so long and I just believe oh my God I wish somebody begin to pray with me Lord God oh you said oh in your word you said in your word you said that the fields were white that the fields were ready to harvest uh in your word you said Lord that we ought to pray ye there for the lord of the Harvest to send forth labors but God there's more to sending than just people getting a oneway ticket we've got to train them we've got to help them uh we've got to give them ideas and models we got to be able to support them it's not enough to send them we've got to support them we got to be right in the middle of their lives throughout their whole Ministries at the end of Deuteronomy 2419 it simply says talks about the principle of the corners and then it says that the Lord thy God May bless thee in all the work of of thy hands you want your home to be blessed come on somebody if you want your home to be blessed you got to follow the principle of the corner you want your family to be blessed you got to follow this principle of the corner if you want your business to be blessed come on there could be nothing better for your business you would you would God would bless you would know what to do your barns would not be able to to even contain what God would pour out if you would allow God to bless your business through allowing Corners leave the corners don't cut the corners whatever you do don't cut the corners now listen I know we've been praying about the training center but just for a few minutes can can we just find a place to pray would that be okay I believe the Holy Ghost could fall because I know our greatest revivals take place when we get serious about giving the greatest revivals that have ever taken place in this church is when we decided to start giving a missions like we've never given before we had the greatest Soul Revival some of you are talking some of are thinking to yourselves well I wish he would have preached on the Holy Ghost today well let me tell you something the Holy Ghost will be poured out when we get our hearts in the right place and when we begin to realize that the blessing is in the principle of the corners come on I don't know you can you can kneel up front you can kneel down where you are you can put your head upon the Pew in front of you but come on can you just begin to pray this prayer with me say God I don't do it for blessing but God I just believe just like Boaz Lord I believe there's a benefit in blessing other people for it's more blessed to give than it is to receive oh Boaz he got a beautiful wife because he blessed this young shimi woman oh he or he blessed this young lady oh he became the father of moed he became the grandfather of Jesse he became the great grandfather of King David he began to lineage of Jesus Christ I don't know about you but I want to be like Boaz today I want to be like that shunamite woman today God put inside of me something that's intentional I want to intentionally give oh my wife and I we're praying about what we're going to give towards the training center we're not our missions give is not going to hurt it's not going to falter but oh God I believe Lord God you're laying an amount Upon Our Hearts for this training center God then when we receive this offering when we receive the Investments for the training center Lord I don't want to do just to be something of abundance from us Lord God but I want it to be uh intentional and on purpose come on pray that prayer say God I want to be intentional I it's more than just putting a $5 bill in the offering and saying I gave the missions come on it's got to be intentional God what would you have my family sacrifice uh Lord God if missionaries are going to come out of the training center uh and my my investment is going to go to Africa and India and Australia and New Zealand and the Philippines if my investment is going to go to Russia if my investment is going to go all throughout Europe to France if my investment is going to go to Poland if my investment is GNA build churches across this world in South America God we need more churches in Brazil in Chile we need more churches in Central America I just believe God if you'll put it upon our hearts uh woo the sky is the limit of how many missionaries we can send forth from the training center but oh God give us the spirit of Boaz God give us the spirit of this sh of my woman I will I will do it I will be I will sacrifice I'll give until I can't give anymore I'll keep my hand open and I'll let you to bless other people through me through my business woo through my family through my heart I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place do it in Jesus name uh send forth labors in Jesus name uh send forth send forth what you want that's what I that's what I will be will be what you call me to be I lift my hands and I say IE Lord IE my Des come I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place that's what I'll be I say yes to your will into to your way I say yes to your will into to your way I agree intentionally I say yes I is to be you to that's what I come on sing us with us come on sing with the top of your lungs I choose to be I choose to be what you call me to be I say yes yes yes yes I say Lord I agree Lord IE is to be come on lift up your hands real high and sing this right here this is what the Lord's looking for he's looking for obedience I agree I agree I agree real high say I see yes yes I agree yeah I'll say yes I agree oh yeah say I say yes Lord I agree I agree I age I say I say I agree yes yes I agree I agree I age IE I agree you I just want to I want to read one more one more verse that I'm going to dismiss you today Nehemiah 46 I love the last line of this verse but it says so built we the wall so built we the training center when all the training center was joined together unto the hall thereof it says for the people had a mind to work for the people now listen if you keep on reading you're going to hear about some people that were resisting the wall being built and there will be spirits that are going to I don't think there's any people but there are going to be Spirits are going to resist that training center be built I promise you we're going to go through hell and high water between now and the first person graduates and goes into the foreign land y'all hear me we're about to go through the hardest spiritual warfare we've ever the same spiritual warfare it was building this church we're going to go through that but in Jesus name woo when the people have a mind to work the toay and sand ballots that they want to mess with you and want to start saying stuff about you and want to start threatening you oh my god when the people have a mind to work when they say yes Lord I agree yes Lord I agree I'll do whatever it takes I'll be whatever you want me to be I'll do it I'll do it oh greater is he that is within us than he that is in this world the power The Authority that we have in this community greater is he yes I agree I agree yes I'm say say I do your will to your plan oh God yeah I free I am free I'm say I'm say are you are come on one more time with your hands LIF together I say yes I you free can we just lift our hands all across this place one more time and just say yes to that Lord we hear your word today Lord we feel Lord that conviction that challenge that push Lord from your presence this even Lord this this morning Lord we feel that push from your presence right now Lord and Lord we say yes to it Lord we we accept the ch challenge oh God to go forth God and to be all that you would have us be come on if you receive that word today why don't you clap your hands to the Lord