You are invited to examine your heart and ensure your service flows from a genuine attitude of humility rather than obligation. Even when your schedule feels full, remember that God specializes in using busy people to accomplish His good work. Commit today to an attitude adjustment that allows you to serve others wherever you are, no matter the cost.
Oh, Rachel, here's a certificate. You take that. So now, we have the joy and honor of getting to hear from pastor Philip Chevrier bring part he's gonna bring part 2 of "well done". Amen. Amen.
Alright, church. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, man. That was awesome.
I didn't cry, so that was good. I also didn't cry at our wedding, so if I did, then I would have got Rachel got mad at me. Okay? So, didn't cry. But church, God's got a word.
He's got a word for you today. Right? And it's and it's and it's challenging. Okay? The word's gonna be challenging.
It is going to encourage you. Okay? And I pray, that's our prayer that when you leave here, God's got you thinking. His words are piercing your heart because they're not my words, it is God's words. It's Jesus talking directly to you on what he wants to do.
Amen? Look, Amen. Well, there was like way too much on earth getting thrown at me, like there was like all this stuff, like how all all these good things that I'm doing, I gotta throw that back. Okay? I gotta throw that back to pastor because they say that the greater the calling, the greater the responsibility to serve and there is no perfect, more perfect example than pastor David and pastor Courtney.
Okay? Who step in and who pray and who serve the church. Pastor David's playing the drums. Okay? He's he's jamming on the drums, worshiping wherever he can go.
He's filling a need because that's what God has called him to do. And, you can see that because the seed that he's sown. Okay? Has produced a harvest of people who are like him. Okay?
They're the people that are going out in the streets. Right? The Belong ministry and ministering the gospel. Okay? There is that servant leadership is being spread throughout the congregation.
Okay? And what it what it does is it develops servants of *God* in our homes, in our church and in the world. I'll never forget, it was actually a couple months ago, pastor David, he did this calling. He said, look, if you've served in real church in any capacity, I want you to come to the front. Does anybody remember that?
Okay. It was flooded. It was like over a 100 people right here, and we're all staring back at everybody who's not up here. It's like, what are you doing? What's going on?
I'm just kidding. That's what servants don't do that. Right? Servants don't do that. But, it is just a reflection of who he is, who they are together and what that produces.
And, what's amazing is that if you heard the message from last week, pastor David says, we're not done. It's not good enough because there are so many people in this county. There's millions. There's over 1000000 people, okay, who need to hear the gospel. That are in despair, who are thinking about themselves and trying to get by and they're they're just chasing after all these things when it's Jesus Christ.
He's the foundation and he's like, those are the people that we want to bring and we're gonna continue. We're gonna continue to do that even if there is 70% of the people in our church that serve. We want them serve more. Right? And look, me and my wife, we we joined real church back in 2019.
Okay? Look, when we were looking around, pastor David's preaching was pretty good. So we're like, that's a good thing. Okay? We're looking at the worship.
We're looking at all those different aspects. Right? But in the end, none of those things are as important as getting to know pastor David and have him serving and the conversations of him and Courtney having with our family and restoring us. And, you see, when we don't join a church just because of the location or the lights or any of those things, it is the anointing of God and the vision. And you join because of that, because of the vision that he has for this city, for this county, this state, this world.
Pastor David, thank you. Pastor David and pastor Courtney, thank you for what you guys are doing. And so we're in this series, well done, good and faithful servants. I've been reading the book by pastor by doctor David Leo Van Routen. Is that right, pastor?
Leon Van Royten. Royten. Okay. Looks like rotten, but that's who whose name would be that? Okay.
So, doctor Leo and pastor David brought I wanna bring up the scripture from 1 of the scriptures, the points from last week. It's in *John-13* verse 2 through 5. Alright. This is when Jesus is washing his disciples' feet. And so we have in verse 2, it said, the evening meal was in progress and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Ischaret, to betray Jesus.
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God. So, he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. In that moment, Jesus demonstrated the true greatness that is found in spontaneous acts of serving each other at the point of need. And then, the the awesome point that I had never thought about was that this was in the middle of the supper.
Right? And could it be that none of the disciples had stepped up and washed anybody's feet yet? And so Jesus said, if if nobody's gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. And then he I'm gonna show this as an example, and the disciples were shocked. Right?
They're like, woah, wait. It's no. No. No. Don't do it.
Peter was just like, give me a bath, Jesus. You know, you know, all that type of stuff. But Jesus, okay, he made it clear, okay, and he and this demonstration was not only, okay, for the disciples at the table, it reverberated throughout history, for everybody else, that this is this is what it is. And doctor Leo puts he says, it's the ministry of the bowl and towel. The ministry of the bowl and towel.
It's a responsibility that Jesus has entrusted to everyone. And so 1 of the points and what I want you guys to think about today, it's not all who serve are servants. **attitude is what** sets you apart. Now, you saw my father-in-law, Charles Crowsman on stage, we call him Chuck. I I call him dad, but you know, for you guys, it's Chuck.
Okay? And so, was he last week, he came over for dinner and we were talking about various things and he was excited about my sermon and my my father-in-law, he has been in the service industry for over 50 years serving at various country clubs all over the all over the place. Okay? And what he was telling me is that in his time of employing people, he said, you can teach someone to fold napkins, you can teach someone to to take an order. Okay?
You can teach someone where all the utensils and everything that is in the club is. He says, but 1 thing that you can't teach is attitude. And he said, attitude, he said, sometimes you can see it in the very beginning with an employee on how they react to certain situations. Attitudes are caught and not taught and that is the the amazing part of being together in a church body. Okay?
Like rubbing shoulders with each other, like doing things. Okay? Because again, the the lead staff can teach you how to set up the chairs. They can teach you how to change a diaper. I mean, know, diapers.
Okay? They can teach you how to how to put all the the signs up, but what they can't do is teach you how to serve from a place of joy. They can't teach you how to how to serve God and to do it peacefully and and lovingly knowing that you're serving God whenever you do such things that seem basic. But when you look at somebody else and you see what they're doing and you see their servant, you're like, I see that. God, I want that.
How do I get there? And that's the beauty of coming to church and connecting with other people to see their lives and to exemplify that and to spur 1 another on to good deeds. Oh, you did that? I'm gonna 1 up you with the blessing over here. Imagine a church that's just "1 upping each other" in blessings.
Oh, I wanna serve here. I'm gonna try and serve more, but it's not out of recognition. Right? It's out of responding to who Jesus is. Amen.
Amen. That's good. The ministry of the bowl and towel is not optional. We do not serve for personal gain, but rather to give and to ease the load off of someone else. We engage in the work that is before us because we are servants, not because it is forced upon us.
And so, let's look at some of these some of these famous people, these great leaders in the early church and we're only gonna look at the first verse of the first chapter for these guys. Okay? Because that sets the tone. If we look at Romans-1:1, Paul, what does he say? A servant.
A *servant* of Christ. He says, an apostle set apart for the gospel of God. Apostle's great. Mean, was anointed. Was looking at all the amazing things that Paul had done for the church.
It spread like wildfire, fire, flour, you know. They do they do the same thing. Right? He says, a servant. Another translation says, a slave.
Another translation says, a bond servant. *James-1:1*. James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. What does Peter say? 2 Peter-1:1, Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ.
*Jude-1* verse 1. Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, brother of James. That is the foundation. That's the very foundation and the disciples got it and when thousands of years later, we read those things and that's what we need to understand too. Okay?
Like them, we all need to make the decision to humble ourselves and take on the form of a servant, slave, bond servant for Christ Jesus. Going back to my father-in-law, Chuck, he's full of ideas. He's I mean, he's a problem solver. Pastor David, how many times has Chuck said, hey, pastor, I got an idea for you. Many times.
Times. Alright. He's always there to give. If you got a problem, he's gonna give a solution or an idea. Not They're not always great.
Okay? But he's got something. Dad, you got something. Okay? And so, were we're having a conversation this past week and he says, hey, son.
He says, you know the beatitudes that Jesus said? Matthew, know, it's in Matthew-5 where God says, you know, blessed are the poor and spirits for there's the kingdom. Things like that. Well, that says, what would the servitudes be? And I was like, okay, that's a good 1, dad.
That's a good 1. You're onto something. And that night, it was it was going on in my head. Okay. And the next day, with the help of doctor Leo, I went ahead and put together some of the things that would be the servitudes.
Okay. So let's look at a few of these. So Jesus always started with blessed. So we go, blessed are the *servants* who take initiative not waiting for someone else to ask them to do something. **blessed are the servants** who minister out of balance and wholeness, not the need for appreciation, recognition, promotion or acceptance.
These are a little bit longer than what Jesus did. Right? And that goes right against our culture. Right? It puts right up against the the cultural norm because that is the point of being in leadership in these corporations, in all sorts of things.
It's to get ahead of somebody else, but the kingdom of God, it's upside down. They call it the "upside down kingdom". We said the last shall be first. And so pastor David would gladly say, hey, I'm at the bottom of the totem pole. In my eyes, you may see me at the top.
He's like, I'm at the bottom, and I'm serving everybody else above me. This next one's a little long. Look at this. *Blessed are the servants* whose pleasure comes from knowing that they did what he called them to do. Listen listen to this 1.
It says, they're comfortable as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord and can do it for the rest of their days because menial tasks are not a pressure or a burden but rather a joy and a delight. Amen. Amen. A joy and a delight. God sees you, the greeters.
He sees you when you're serving your wife or your husband, when you serve your kids, the things that you don't think that are there and they and you're gonna do it anyways when nobody's looking and you gladly do it. It's an attitude to get there. Right? It's God correcting us and getting into that mode. Now, these last 3 are the some of these are some of the points we're gonna be hitting on.
Right? Blessed are the servants who serve the Lord best with as few distractions as possible. Blessed are the servants who serve out of their relationship with Jesus. *Worship* always precedes service. And then finally, blessed are the servants who serve despite the circumstances.
And so, we're gonna jump into Luke-10:38-42. Okay. Jumping into because we're talking about blessed are the servants who serve without with the fewest distractions as possible. And so, this is a story that you may be familiar with of Martha and Mary. Alright.
So Luke-10, it says, as Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had she had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said, but Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me. Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed or indeed only 1.
Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her. Man, that's good. So, some some background. Right? So Martha and Mary, they were sisters of Lazarus.
Okay. Martha was probably the eldest that's why they said it was her home. Okay. She was possibly a widow and Lazarus and Mary lived with her. You can you can tell from you know, just those few verses, she seemed anxious.
She had a bustling spirit eager to help in providing the best things for the master's use and in that, in what she's doing, it doesn't, it's not wrong. Right? It doesn't seem that any of that is wrong but when you look at what Mary is doing, Mary wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to sit at Jesus feet. She simply wanted to soak in his presence and you can look both Mary and Martha. Martha was absorbed, preoccupied and distracted while Mary was focused exclusively on Jesus and that may be what Paul was talking on 1 Corinthians-7:35.
He says, I'm saying this for your benefit, not to place restrictions on you. He said, I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best with as few distractions as possible. Alright. So, let's let's visualize this scenario. If their sisters Mary and Martha, I imagine there's a game plan.
Right? Okay. So, we have the 12 disciples coming over and then we got Jesus and by this point, look, Jesus had done some awesome miracles. He had raised people from the dead. Okay?
The 5,000 had been fed, so they're like, it's a big deal. Okay? He's coming to our home. Martha is she's getting everything ready. She's like, Mary, you're gonna help me?
And Mary's like, no. I'm not helping you. I'm sitting. I'm sitting. I'm going to Jesus.
And she's like, no, Mary. You're helping me. I'm your older sister. You'd have to do what I tell you. Right.
And so, Jesus comes in and you know Martha, she's just all over the place you know fixing this up, fixing that up, you know, who knows what I mean what making matzo balls, I don't know what what are the Jewish people make in the first century, you know, whatever it is. Okay? And and then she hears she hears Mary in the other room just like laughing. Oh, Jesus. That was so wise.
Oh, Jesus. That was And you know, she's just enjoying her time with Jesus. And so Martha is like, Mary. Mary, get over here. Because I mean, look, if you look at the scripture right here, it says Martha's so mad.
She's like, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all this work? Tell her to help me because I tried and she won't listen. She's not listening to me. And in that moment, okay, *Jesus*, he didn't rebuke Martha, did he? He didn't rebuke Mary because it seemed like in the moment that Martha was not serving with the right attitude.
She was not serving from a place of joy and peace. Because really what it comes down to, what he did was he gently encouraged her to serve and we're supposed to be a combination of both of them. We're supposed to be people that are focused on Jesus *Christ* looking and being able to sit at their feet, "sit at his feet" and listen to him but also to work. To work to build his kingdom. Those 2 things combined are what changes the world and what changes lives, that would impact cities, that are radically changed.
Can we go 1 step deeper though? Okay. Let's consider the context of the passage. Okay. We're in the first century.
Okay. Of Jew of the Jewish society. What would the underlying part be? Would how would that be significant? Because you see in the Jewish world of the first century, it was only the men who would be a disciple of the rabbi.
Most people would have sat in chairs, but disciples, if their rabbi was present, would sit at their rabbi's feet. It was a posture of humility and even a way of declaring that those around them that this person is who you are learning from. And Luke, he brilliantly captures Mary posture in the part of the narrative. And, could it be that Jesus is saying, Mary has chose what is better and it will not be taken away from her. Disciples, are you hearing that?
All the other men that are in the area, it will not be taken away from her. Because Jesus was counterculture elevating women, elevating everybody around that you wouldn't want to, that you didn't think because that's who God is. That's who we serve and that is who we are, that is the example that we serve to. And we can look at Mary's posture and notice that the next servitude would be *worship* precedes service. Since all service must flow out of our relationship with Jesus, we find ourselves becoming irritated or even offended if we serve without having spent time at his feet.
It's a relationship with Jesus and then out of the overflow of that relationship with him, we are able to serve freely into everyone and to do what would have made us tired before because he's filling us up and we're not looking to recognition from anybody else because we know he says well done and he loves us and he cares us, cares for us. I was doing some research for this sermon you know, and I went on YouTube because that's some real good research. Right? Just not entertainment purposes, just for service. And so, I came across a commercial.
Do you guys remember the Snickers commercial? They had this tagline, it's great. It says, it said Snickers, "you're not you" when you're hungry. And so, I found 1 of the commercials that was appropriate because there were some that were not. Okay?
And, if you guys have the clip, can we can we play that commercial? Marsha, what happened? Peter hit me in the nose with a football. I can't go over the desk like this. Well, I'm sure it was an accident, sweetheart.
An eye for an eye. It's what dad always says. I never said that, honey. Shut up. Time to teach Peter a lesson.
Marsha, eat us Snickers. Why? You get a little hostile when you're hungry. Better? Better.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Jan, this isn't about you. It never is. Marsh? So the the tagline, they're they have these funny actors there, but look, what I would say is you're not you when you're not spending time with Jesus.
Whenever you you you you get focused on the stuff, the things, and start doing things, sometimes we we do wanna do things for God. Right? But then we neglect actually spending time with him. All of a sudden, comes out we get pastor David said last week, we become a "walking offense". Okay?
That we're complaining and grumbling starts to come up, but that's not you. That was the old you. That was the person that died. Okay? Whenever we have we have brought in Jesus into our lives, the old is gone, the new has come.
And so what we need is an infusion of Jesus Christ into our lives, and so we can So then what he can do is he can adjust our attitudes. Okay? Unless you are a worshiper, you'll get busy in trying to deal with the multitude of needs that wait that can wait and overload you and overwhelm you. And we need an "attitude adjustment". Look, my my imagination just goes wild because when I think attitude adjustments, okay, attitude adjustment is the finishing move of John Cena, a WWE wrestler.
Okay? And, so this is what he does. He gets in the ring, he puts the wrestler on his shoulders and he sees spinning around the rest of the guy that's on his shoulder like, oh, no. You know, wrestling's fake, but it's real, but it's fake, but it's real. Okay?
And so, he's got the guy on his shoulders, and he flips them all completely over and slams them into the ground. You ever the Holy Spirit ever do that to you before? Yes. Because look pastor David's been up here. He he the Holy Spirit has added adjusted his attitude many times, know.
He's washing dishes and he's grumbling, okay, and he's like, oh, Courtney making me do this again and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit gets him on the shoulders and pastor Dave is like, no, no, don't do it Holy Spirit and he's like, serve your wife like I serve the church. And and they they never get up from that. They never get up after the attitude adjustment. Right? There's 3 3 times they tap and they're done.
And of course, know, we think of what Jesus did with Martha. I mean, come on. Can you see Jesus? Martha's up on Jesus' shoulders, know, and it's like, serve with love and peace, know, and it's like, puts her through a table. It didn't happen like that.
I'm just thinking I'm just thinking crazy. Okay? But, when you have a relationship with Jesus, okay, and you're reading the word and you're seeking him, he's gonna tell you what you're doing wrong. He's gonna do it and it's not gonna feel good. Okay?
And you're gonna feel sore afterwards. But see, he does it lovingly because he cares. If he didn't do that, then he wouldn't be a loving father. Right. That would be correcting us.
That's right. But again, if we try to do it by ourselves, it's not gonna work. It won't work. It's only from that *relationship* with Jesus. And so, if we look at what Jesus was saying, Matthew-11 verse 28 and 29.
This is the famous thing that he said. He said, come to me all who are weary and burdened. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
We've been at that place, right, where we're so weary. We've been burdened by our sin. That this that everything that we've done has is counted against us, and there's no possible way that we can get out of it. We felt that there are people out there that are feeling it, that are living it every single day, that need hope, and that need life, and *Jesus* is calling out to them. He said, come to me.
Come to me because I can give you rest. And when you come into that contact, when you get that relationship with you, you know, you get on your knees and you're you're seeking after him, and finally, you feel it lift off your shoulder. Have you ever felt the burden lift, that you didn't have to do it on your own, that Jesus is with you, and he's died on the cross for your sins, and we're like, thank you Jesus so much for what you've done in my life. But notice in that scripture, he said, my burden is light. He doesn't take off the burden so much where he gives you a new burden because he says my yoke is easy.
And so what he does is he takes all the sin, all the stuff that was chaining you down, and then he hands you a bowl and a towel. And he says, I have a new burden for you. It's a burden for souls. It's a new burden to be a servant, the servant of all. There's no lower place to fall.
There's work required. He says, "let's get to work", son, daughter. And then we're Our attitude is continuing to be adjusted to line up with the perfect example of Jesus Christ. I gotta tell you about my friend, 1 of my best friends, his name is Aaron. I met him long time ago.
Right? As soon as I graduated high school, what I did was I came to Clearwater, Florida. I was in North Carolina. Came to Clearwater, Florida to be a part of a 9 month discipleship program. And it was intense because we lived on campus and we memorized scriptures, we wrote papers, we had daily we had weekly chapels, We cleaned the church.
Alright? Scrubbed the toilets. We vacuumed everything. Got all the rooms ready. It was a large building.
It was a big church. Okay? And we also served in all the ministries from evangelism to kids church, youth. Every event that was put on, it was our group of young adults that were a part of it, and we called it the Master's Commission. That's pretty cool.
Right? It's a good name. The Master's Commission. And so, that was our group and we had people. 1 of us, another part of it was we had a band.
Right? And then we toured up and down the East Coast going to different youth groups, going to Sunday mornings and ministering the gospel. It was it was awesome, but it was also intense. And it meant meeting a lot of people from different backgrounds. Okay?
And that that's 1 of the times that I realized that not all people who serve are *servants* Because we have people from different states, like this 1 guy, he's from Pennsylvania, and he was the joke guy. He's just telling jokes all the time, and most of them weren't even funny. Okay? And after a while, being his roommates, like, I don't even like this guy anymore. Okay?
Because everything's a joke. Then you had We had another guy. He had cerebral palsy. Alright? He walked with a limp and his his hand was kinda curled up.
He didn't like me. And there's 1 instance, 1 of the things that he did was that if he didn't like what you said or how you acted to him, he would, he said, don't talk to me for the rest of the day. And so there was 1 of the times where he comes in from something and I'm like, his last name was Spink. Right? And I said, I said, I I don't even know what I said.
Okay? But he said, Chevy, don't talk to me for the rest of the day. And I said, love you, spank. He didn't like that. And he said, what did you say?
I said, I love you, spank. And he said, you shut up. And I said, I love you, spank. I said that about 5 more times at the top of my lungs. And he got in my face, we had to break it up.
Look, I don't fight disabled people. I don't think we were going to fight, but that's the Look, that's 1 of the times that I I can't It was weird. Okay? So, and then we had Then there was the guy that was the student who lived. He had already been attending the church.
Right? He had just graduated high school too. He lived right next to church. His name was also Philip. So they decided since your name is Philip, his name is Philip, he's been here longer, you're now Chevy.
Okay? So that's how I got my name. My name is Chevy and my dad to this day hates that name. Okay? He came down a couple weeks ago and my Rachel is trying to She called me Chevy all the time, but now she's trying to call me Philip.
Right? And then and then my dad's like, yeah, it is Philip. Right? He never got over that. And so, Philip, he he had some anger issues.
Boy, he did. And he When he got angry, he punched things. And But good thing it wasn't people, it was just doors, toilet dispensers, walls, stuff like that. He was my roommate. Okay?
And then, of course, there's me. I had my iPod mini loaded up with "Christian wrap", like KJ 5 2, Flame, you know, T Bone, all that type of stuff. I had my suitcase packed up with Christian t shirts. And they made fun of me for that, but anyways. And so I had the shirt, 1 of them that You know, you know the brand Amber Crombie and Fitch?
Well, had the shirt that said a crumb bread and fish. Okay? Like Yeah. I like that 1. I had a shirt that looked like it was Coca Cola, except the calligraphy was Jesus Christ.
He's refreshing forever, you know? I There was a shirt that I wanted, but I felt like it was a little too much. It said mountain Jew, and it had Moses with the 10 commandments. I didn't get that 1. Okay?
But I wanted to get it. So that was me. Right? And then there was my buddy Aaron. I like to call Aaron the servant of servants.
He served so much it was annoying. Okay? So we're we're sitting down at the lunch table, we're all eating and he finishes food first, maybe on purpose, I don't know, and he starts picking everybody's plates up to throw it away. And me, being very annoyed by this, I say, you can't take my plate. I'll throw it away myself.
I don't know why. Maybe I was a jerk. I don't think I was a jerk, but who knows. Okay? Not only that, but at the drop of a hat, he was the first to volunteer for everything.
And 1 of the things that he volunteered for, he was not musically talented, he was not technically gifted, but he noticed that our third year intern was struggling at the soundboard, and so he volunteered himself to learn the soundboard. And he told me later, he was like, look, I noticed he was having a tough time, so I wanted to help him out. And then 1 of the things that he was very talented at was video editing. Okay? In the assemblies of God, they have this thing that's called fine arts, and 1 of the categories was short film.
And he won the category of short film for the whole nation. So he came to our master's commission and he was the editor guy. He was the only person that could edit the videos. So when tours came up and the videos were He was the 1 that was staying up all night long, editing videos, having them render, and again, this is like 2,005. Okay?
The computers were not fast. So he had to stay up long nights to get those videos ready. And so he became my best friend because what annoyed me at first, I realized that is the attitude that I need. That is the attitude that I should be striving for. And so, I gotta be his friend.
That's good. And his passion was film, to impact the world for *Christ* when it came to movies and film. And sure enough, a month ago, his 90 minute feature film was showed at a film festival in Los Angeles in the Chinese theater. And, the movie was about a pastor who lost his son due to an illness and the fallout of the relationship and what happened dealing with the impact of that. And, he got that into a film festival.
And this movie that he made, okay, he it was all on his own doing as in he funded it himself, he edited himself, he shot it himself with the help of his wife. He paid everything to do it on his own. When he was talking to me, okay, he said that he would work for 8 to 10 hours at his regular job, okay, at a reality show company, and then after hours, he'd work 2 to 3 hours per night for a full year to edit and get this video out there and get this movie out there. **Whatever it takes**. Whatever it takes.
Because he knew that God was gonna use it in a place in Los Angeles, in a movie, in Hollywood that that it's so dark, and they're so it's so anti God, they with nothing to do with it, he said people are gonna know who Jesus is. Maybe they won't even know what they're watching, but the undertones are Christ and what he did. Pastor David has It's in 1 of the statues, the core values. What is it? Whatever it takes.
It's it's the vision statement. Right? Whatever it takes for people to know the love of Jesus and live their God given purpose. Whenever you were starting the church, did they not say that that was too aggressive? The church planning organization said, maybe you might wanna change that.
That's a little much, pastor. And he said, leave it in. He said, leave it in because this is who we are. This is the vision for our church. Whatever it takes, And so that is the vision of this house.
That is what God is calling us to. It's what Jesus did. It is what Paul did. So how far will you go? 1 of the servitudes.
Right? The last 1, blessed are the servants who serve despite the circumstances. Will you serve when it is uncomfortable? Will you serve when you are busy? How far out of your way will you go for God?
*Titus-2:14*. It says, he who gave himself to us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify himself, a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. God set apart a people to be purified and eager. We are those people to do what is good, to serve. But pastor, I got I got stuff going on.
I I I got kids. I have a job. I have all these things. *God* called busy people. When God called Moses, he was tending his father in law's sheep.
When God called Elisha, he was plowing his father's field. When God called David, he was taking care of his father's sheep. When God called Joshua, he was serving Moses. When God called Nehemiah, he was the king bearer's he was the king's cup bearer, a servant. God calls busy people.
The disciples, they were fishing. They had a job. He didn't he doesn't call lazy people. He calls good faithful people to anointed living. Jesus was busy.
You know when belong first started, my wife's like, hey. Hey, Chevy. You know, it's on a Tuesday night. Are you doing you know, what's going on? You know, maybe we can figure out a way to watch the kids.
Babe, and me. Right? I'm busy. We, you know, we got stuff to do. And so since Belong has started, I have not been at 1 of them.
Because I'm busy? Because I got too much going on? And yet, Robbie has a group of people this last week, was it 13 people? 15. 15 people came to know Christ.
And I'm looking at that and I'm saying, where are you at? I'm doing this sermon and God is saying, whatever it takes. I have kids. I got stuff to do. Whatever it takes.
He calls busy people. And I can't go through this sermon. Okay? And I can't do this if I'm not gonna take my own advice, if I'm not gonna preach it to myself. Babe, I don't know how we're gonna don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I gotta go.
And 1 of the things that Robbie was talking about when it came to belong, right, look, church, we know there are tons of different ways to serve. Okay? Belong is a part of that. This is what God is calling all of us to do, but for me, in this time, for this sermon, I'm thinking I need to go and do that. He said, look, even if you just go out and just watch and just be there because attitudes are caught, not taught.
You can learn all the scriptures, but when you're out there on the streets, Jerry, when you're out there and you hear someone else, Heidi, she told the story this Was it this past week of 2 kids that you went up with Owen, and you just started talking to these young kids, and the kid's crying. He's 16. He's got tears in his eyes because God is touching him on the streets outside of the church. What are we doing? God is calling us.
He's reaching out to us. And pastor's not asking for every week. He's maybe once every 6 weeks. As long what it are we are we willing to get uncomfortable? For the past 6 months, I'm like, no.
I don't think so. But from this sermon, if I'm gonna preach it, God's like, yeah. You will. Blessed are the servants. Blessed are the servants who serve, and God will say, well done, good and faithful servant.
It's time for attitude adjustment church. Time for Jesus to put us through the table. Church, let me pray for you. Bow your hands, close your eyes. *God*, we love you.
*God*, what an honor it is that you would let us partake in building the kingdom, that you would give us your word, that you would change change our lives and then out of the overflow of that, God, that you have us to reach out to our communities and everywhere, God. Help us, Lord. Change our attitudes. Lord, let us align with you, God. We know that this that we're challenged.
It's things are tough. We have all sorts of situations and things that we're going through, God. But I pray that we would just seek after you and when we come into that relationship with you, God, whatever you say that we would do, we would be obedient. Because Lord, it's what you've called us to, and we wanna serve you right. And so in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen. Amen. Why don't you guys give a big old hand for pastor Chevy?