Where's The White Out? // Marked (Part 1)

Alright, I have about 38 minutes to tell you everything that's in my left leg right now. It's a lot of excitement and a lot of revelations because today we're starting a new series called Marked and some Maybe You Don't Know, But Last Year, the weekend after Easter, God gave me a tremendous opportunity to speak at Church of elevation and I delivered this

marked

message and I am very grateful to Pastor Steven and Pastor Holly for giving me that opportunity and the platform to speak because God did something that none of us could do. I spoke the

marked

message.

I never talked about it here in our church or anything. God told me to speak it there on a global stage and it literally went viral like literally over 1.4 million people. I saw that message, people are literally texting and emailing. Well, how many of you saw Mark? Anyone I like sees Mark. Well, there are several people in this room who saw it and the crazy thing about this is when I sent that message. a message that God gave me about eight or nine and told me to condense it and do it all in one sermon and so, for the first time, I have been waiting for God to free me to be able to speak this entire message. serial message but I'm about to unfold this thing like an accordion and I'm about to get rid of you a revelation that changed my life and I think it's going to change yours because I came to tell you that you are marked by God, that no matter which be your season right now and no matter what you've been through and no matter what you think you're about to face, God has marked you with a purpose, he has marked you with an impact. he has marked you for destiny and he has marked you for transformation.

I know there are people here right now who feel like maybe their best days are behind them or you feel like what you're facing now was meant to break you out of the lies I came from. tell you that when God put his hand on you when he called you before the will of your mother was formed in her he met you he called you he put his DNA in you I am already high and there is something that God wants to reach the earth through you , not through your neighbor, nor through anyone else, there is something specific that God has called you to do and many of you may feel unqualified or you may feel that you are not worthy of it, but I came to revive your Faith today and letting you know that

where

you are is

part

of God's plan for you because you are marked by God.

I dare anyone to just scream, say I'm marked, you don't even say it like you. minute dad, say it. I'm marked. I'll tell you in the next few days. I don't know when this series will end. Let me be very clear. Okay, we have it marked for a certain number of weeks if you don't. I don't like Mark, check back with us in July because if God's people could ever understand that what you are going through is not the sum of what God is doing in your life and that He called you to something greater than what you are experimenting right now you could face giants and yell I'm marked, come on, someone say it, so this series on marked, if you know anything about it, focuses on David's life, life, leadership and the lessons that we can learn from David, so I really wanted to go and talk about David today, but the Holy Spirit arrested me, he said, David wasn't the first person to mark, he said we talked.

David killed Goliath all along and was going to be king of Israel, but he was the second choice to be king of Israel. Nobody talks about this much, but he was the Robin to Batman. David was. David was really like the Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls, you hear what I'm saying, like he wasn't a Michael Jordan, he was the Pippen of the Bulls, like he wasn't the first. David will go and his epitaph will be. a man after God's own heart, but that, the first time God tried to give that mentality to someone, he's just the one who actually did what it took to carry the mantle, but today I want to talk about the person he was supposed to be. the man.

We were talking about today, huh. I want to talk about the song because a lot of people interpret Saul as if he was the one who changed David and wanted to kill him and all those other things, yes, that's what he became, but not who he started out as. Saul was marked by God to be the first king of Israel. He was the man the Bible tells us was above all others. The Bible tells us that he was supposed to rule for a long time. his family would be established over and over again he has the same anointing that David received he was the one who was supposed to do it but for some reason he disqualified himself from being marked by God before we start shouting that I'm marked and God You are going to take me to the palace and I am here on purpose.

It is possible that you are already in a position and are disqualifying yourself right now from what God has called you to do. I know you don't even understand it yet, so why do you have to. We realize that we go to our next level or we go to the place of purpose or we do what God called us to do, that is our entry, that is, we enter something, but the first point that I want you to write right now is that some exits are destined, others are disqualifications. some de

part

ures are destined but other departures are disqualification the reason Saul was not the Great King we wanted God to be is not because God wanted him not to be it was because he disqualified himself from the fullness of what God had I called him and so I felt it was appropriate that we begin this series, not just talking about

where

God is taking us, but maybe we need to evaluate who we are replacing, maybe we need to evaluate why this hasn't been the case yet.

I've seen the reason God's blessing transforming church right now is not because they've had a shortage of trying to find someone who will say yes. He has been trying to achieve this that we are making a multiethnic and multicultural multiplier church in our country. city, he's been trying to do this in our city. I've known this for at least the last 50 years. I know specific things, but when men and women do not fully respond to God's call on their lives, God will not deny His plan for your negligence, oh my God. God, he will, he won't, he will give you chance after chance and asked you to humble yourself and come to me, but when your heart hardens, he says I have to go to someone else and I want you to know that being marked is not nothing.

Because we are so great it is because God is trying to do something on earth and until people completely submit to his plan, do not try to maintain all your ideals and his, but stay in the place where he has called you to be. disqualify yourself from God's best for your family for your business for your marriage and I just wanted to tell you that you are marked but maybe maybe we need to pay attention to why it didn't happen with our mom why it didn't happen with our boss I need you to hear me say this.

I'll say it this way so you can understand it. your entrance is someone else's exit every time you become whoever you're going to be, someone else is vacating that and sometimes it's because it was meant to happen, me and Bishop had a transition where I'm no longer, anymore I'm not the executive pastor, I became the senior pastor and he became the pastor emeritus and we have a meeting every Wednesday and we talk about what's going on in the church and how God is doing things and things that I need to correct, but that transition was destined before this church began, that's why God initiated me here as the sound man six years before I ever touched a platform because he was divinely orchestrating things that he had already destined you think you are where you are by accident that is divinely orchestrating and putting together pieces that you don't even know the people that you don't like right now those are the people that God is positioning while you You're still in that job, you're in that, it's strategic things.

God is not playing checkers, he is playing chess and he is six moves ahead of you and while you are complaining about why you don't want to move from this place, God says. You better listen to me, you better put yourself in the place you are supposed to be because I am divinely orchestrating your life and that transition was destined, but there are other transitions that are disqualifications and I will continue to use the shepherd analogy that there is. many pastors here who disqualify themselves from what God has called them to do because they allow people who praise them and money and fame to devalue part of the reason I am preaching this is because I am standing in a spotlight right now that the enemy would love for me to get caught in the light and not stay on my knees and that's why I have to preach to them.

I feel the presence of God right now. I have a preaching that works in my flesh I have a I know I can be David or I can be seen, you hear me, you have a note that no one here is excluded from being called by God to finish the task or called by God and disqualify yourself . is exempt I don't care that you have a lot of degrees you are not exempt I don't care if you have an Accountability Board that no one sees in you you have to make a decision every day that you go to the person the only one who called you for the position and That's God good person like me I don't have any position your husband isn't you are a son aren't you your daughter aren't you? a child of God, aren't you every role that God gives you where there is someone breathing? you have been called to an area of ​​leadership and God is saying I need you to know right now I marked you I put my DNA on you I don't care what you did yesterday I don't care what you did last week I don't care what's happening to you my hand is in your life but now you have the opportunity to remove my hand from your life you have the opportunity to fulfill the purpose I called you someone say I'm marked okay okay okay so I have to tell you this because a lot of people didn't know that Saul was amazed but I want to show you in 1 Samuel chapter 9 to 17 um samuel was a prophet at that time and he is the one who is giving the word of the Lord because at that time Jesus had not come and the people could not have a relationship with God on their own, so They had to speak through the prophets and different things like that.

Samuel was the prophet of the day and Samuel goes to meet Saul and look what the Lord says about him, he says when Samuel Saul saw the lord he said who did the lord say he said that is the man I told you about, he will rule my people like that one right there, he marked her right there, yes, yes, yes, I know her hair is messy, but she locked him right there, yes, in the family that is broken and it seems that something is going to come out of it, he has marked sheep in a hole for a long time. but now she's turning into Olli that's the yellow oh yeah he wasn't looking at his past he was looking at his future and I need someone to hear me say this right now God doesn't care so much about your past if you let him in your present because he knows there will always be a bright future and someone needs to understand that you are marked, but a funny thing happened to me in high school.

I took AP English and that was stupid, but one of the things. What they told me to do in AP English is that we always had to pin and I thought that was stupid. Well, first of all, the reasons why it's pinned is because what happens if I make a mistake like you made us write all these essays? and all this other stuff and I admit I'm not the best speller. Listen to what I say and you all can judge me if you want, but there is no spelling bee to get to heaven, so I won't do it.

I was the best speller, so I was proud that I got it right in the end, but I didn't know what my drafts would look like, so writing in pencil was comfortable because I could erase it and then do it again, but then he said you always have to write with pen and I wanted to hit him because he wanted us to use our words permanently, so what ended up happening is in AP English. I still couldn't feel that good so I had to have something to help me correct my mistakes and some of you are too young to know anything about this but there were these things called

white

ning pin jobs you all know what I'm talking about and then they started getting really fancy and they had like this little

white

thing like shrimp, okay, I haven't used it in a while, but back then I literally had an arsenal of them.

It looked like I was going to a western and it was like the time when I only had white things because I was I'm going to be marking up all my work, but what ended up happening is that when I made a mistake, I had to write down my mistake. The title of today's message is really what God had to do with Saul because Saul was who he wanted. to say that's what he wrote permanently is what he wanted to be there, but then he had to look up at the sky and say where the blackout is because something I wanted to be there said he disqualified himself and now I'm going to have to.

I'm going to have to get him out of his destiny. I have to bleach it because I didn't want it to do that the same way God says if you don't keep sleeping if you don't stop sleeping with these. People, you will make me forget the purpose to which I called you if you do not obtain the heart of generosity that I have been blessing you with year after year after year after year and stillthat I have a plan for you that would set you up forever, he said, but if you want to do it. these temporary things then I pulled out a target he said that the Lord has already appointed him to be the leader of his people he no I didn't miss him I said because the Lord has looked for a man after his heart this is the exact moment where God begins to call David, they're not even in the same place, but I imagine something like this: David is picking up sheep poop right now, he's in a very humble position, he's humble and he does what he was asked to do and God just dropped something. in his heart.

I'm going to make you a leader of many, it seems like I'm a manure leader, Lord, but he said that's what qualifies you, because you will do things when no one is looking and you will be faithful and Integrity when there are no cameras around. no one is going to applaud you, you are expanding and you are losing vision in another piece that you have run, you are disqualifying yourself while one through service is qualifying yourself and this is when it happens, he said that the Lord has already appointed to be leader of his people because you have not kept the commandments of the Lord I am in a hurry what erases you third thing from Saul's life partial obedience because you know that partial obedience is what disobedience is yes it is, you all know when They try to do something like God says or something like your parents say, but you still do your thing which is disobedience and kids, I know, I always used to tell you, but I did it and they will always say, but you didn't do this, this is what that God here is saying that what ends up happening is the play of words in the intended play, the play of your purpose never happened suddenly, he would reign for another 30-odd years, but he ended his effectiveness when he disobeyed, so the Outsiders stole the crown of salt and saw. people still saw the perceived impact, but he knew it as well as Samuel knew it as well as God knew that he is no longer the one and what ended up happening is that he is still in his place and God was trying to give him opportunities to regret.

Look, God happened to someone. Why would God just end up like this? He left him in charge for 42 years. He still gave him opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to repent and obey, but he got so caught up in his pride, the pride of his position, that then when God asked him to do something, it would only be partial obedience, let me tell you first samuel chapter 15 verse 7, you can see it in your own time, but in a nutshell, what ended up happening is that God told Samuel to tell Saul, go kill all the Malachites have done everything wrong that I told him to go kill them. everyone, the goats, the pigs kill everyone and that's what I want you to do, guess what Saul did.

Saul went in there and killed everyone except the king and took all the good things, livestock and possessions and he brought them back as his reward, he did everything except what have you done in your life, except he said be single for the next season and you did it for nine months, except it was your birthday, oh come on. Be honest, he told you to get your finances in order and pay off all your debts, except that you wanted a new car, it's not me, it's the word that God told you to spend more time with your family and take the pay cut and do it. you will get. all but obey him and he's saying well, well why didn't you obey me completely?

You started the journey but you partially obeyed me and this is what it says then Saul massacred the Amalekites in all these places verse 8 and captured, God hears, the king, and said, "Okay, I will stay with everyone, but I will not stray from the verse Tim, then the Lord said to Samuel, look what the Lord said to Samuel, I'm sorry I did it." did Saul King what happens when God hates that he chose you I said a way out and I never chose him I saw their potential I saw what they were going to do but in their hearts they were proud they didn't even think about themselves like I told them I thought about them and I didn't They obeyed, they did a little.

I wish I had never put him in his place. Do you know how devastating it is when God says I was wrong? I wrote something I wanted. It will be permanent but now I have to take off the veil because they won't do what I asked them to do. I have to find someone else and my cry for my life and for transformation. Church the reason I am preaching this is because the enemy wants me to look at the lights that the world is shining on me right now but I am seen and I am David they were both marked but it is what I do with the decision that God has given me what qualifies me for greatness or disqualifies me from my purpose and some of you are sitting here, so proud, thinking it's for someone else, you're on your way down because you, no pride was the first sin, nor was Adam and Eve , Lucifer, the reason he was expelled. heaven is because he was supposed to be leading worship to God and he just made a little mistake and got to the place where he could receive some of the worship and at that moment he was proud enough to think he deserved it, the Bible says .

That's how I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. That's where the phrase pride before the father comes from and what I'm telling you right now, what begins to whiten us about our destiny is when everyone, and all of us who are susceptible, only partially obey God. It is the beginning of the end for him God says he has not been loyal to me and has refused to obey my orders all of you I do not want us to end up like Saul, I do not want I want what God wants for your family and your purpose and your destiny I do not want let none of that be erased and God says now I have to find someone else I put my money on them I put my hand on them I put my anointing on them, but they won't do it my way because they prefer to be comfortable than called, they prefer to make happy people than me, so I have to go find someone else and the crazy thing about it.

The story is that God doesn't take Samuel or take everyone out of his position, leave him there and give them another chance to turn, then David enters the picture and we will find out about David in the next few weeks of the series. Now because Saul isn't doing what he's supposed to do, God marks David and David comes in and David kills Goliath and we all know the group and he starts singing the song and and and and and and he's like David, everyone's like Dave, everyone says, David, come. In help me say it, he said David's Lynton a thousand saw a thousand and heard this and he said: I hate the number one song and I'm about to kill David.

I promise you that's what the Bible says in the first chapter of Samuel 18 because it lights up. What illuminates God's purpose in your life is when you start comparing callings when God has called you to a place but then you start looking at someone else, God's blessing and you are comparing your calling to someone else who is calling. , this is the cutting signal that you are about to be corrected from the purpose that God has caused you he said what is for you is for you what I have for you is for you you have to come back to me for it and what The Bible says in 1 Samuel chapter 18 verse 8 it says that this made Saul very angry, what is this?

They attribute ten thousand to David and then they find a thousand. They will make Saul their king mute because God had already anointed David as king. He was worried. about what the people were going to do instead of what God had already done, he was worried that the people would do it King, he said honey, you missed it and that's what pride will do, pride, I'll blind you to your fall, you will be thinking. You're standing somewhere doing something great and everyone around you sees you just go down and fall, hit the people who put you in position, but it was God all along and God came to tell someone right now who's been fighting the comparison. that when you start in comparison jealousy enters your heart and jealousy is a sure sign that you are about to spend your days chasing something that was never for you again and that is how Saul turns the end of his life chasing David until kill him He himself remembers what I said at the beginning, the only person who can prevent you from reaching your destiny and calling is the one who, when God marks you, when God calls you, is the only one who can do that and never takes it away from you, that's why the gifts come without regret. he said I'm not you they said but you disqualified yourself because no you don't see yourself I see you he began to build your pride in the position that I gave you instead of me you partially obeyed me you gave me a little you came or sometimes you did, you did enough and he He said that partial obedience is disobedience and then you started comparing your calling to other people's and the crazy thing about this is why I'm preaching this with so much passion is because God told me, Michael said, we all have a little salt, every one of us, including the woman speaking, we all have a little salt in us, we all have a part of us that wants to do without God, we all have a part of us that wants to partially obey we all have a part of us and God said Michael, we're going to talk about getting branded and all that other stuff, he said, but there are some people in this room right now who really think I forgot about them, he said no.

I'm just hoping he repents. I'm just waiting for them to stop the way they've been doing it and invite me back. There was not a single time in the 42 years that Saul was king that ever showed him hitting. On his knees and repenting, he continued to move in his pride to the point where he committed suicide and some people feel that why would God leave him and the power if David is the new Cain and puts it in that child because God is so full of grace who will do it? leave you in a place where you disqualified yourself for trying to give you the opportunity to re-enter your calling and there are people in this room who think they have done too much, but I want to introduce you to Second Peter chapter 3.

Verse 9 says that the Lord He really isn't taking long to fulfill his promise, as some people think no, he is being patient for you, he doesn't want anyone to be destroyed, he doesn't want anyone to be whitewashed, he doesn't want it, but. he wants everyone to repent he wants us to turn so disobedience disqualifies you from your goal but repentance marks you out I want to pray for everyone in this room but I need you to recognize where you are if there is an area of ​​your life that you know that looks like Saul's characteristics I want you to stand up right now I want you to pray if you have been moving in Pride you have been doing partial obedience this is not for everyone if you are watching online you don't have to stand up because of guilt but there are some people here who really need prayer right now, why don't you raise your hands all over this building?

Father, here we are, father, we know that we are marked by you. the father is a very fine line between David and Saul father it is the same anointing it is the same mantle it is the same calling but it is about how we steward what you have given us and today father we repent we repeat in this place for not seeing ourselves as you see crazy we repent father God for walking proud of our position our rank our finances our family father God forgive us for being partially obedient for not doing everything you say today father we repent and we will return to you and father God forgive us for looking left and right right from what others were doing when you called us to greatness in our lane, I declared that there is repentance all over this place, police father, I appreciate you doing a job with us. from the inside out come on someone say I repent come on and you know what it is for say what it is for God I repent for being selfish I repent father God for not cutting off that relationship I repeat father for seeing those things I repent no I don't want to be whitewashed for your Pisco mark us again Marcus for the first time read Marcus God and we will be careful to give you all the glory all the honor and all the praise in the name of Jesus you will give God a shout of praise in this building right now hallelujah