A Concept Called Grace // Deprogrammed Part. 2 // The Blueprint with Dr. Dharius Daniels

Welcome to the blueprint. Let's give God some praise in the room. Drop some fire in the chat. This is the day the Lord has made. We're rejoicing and we are glad in it. I want to start tonight by jumping into just a little time of prayer. Listen, listen to me now.

Mark Batterson says this. He says, "Your prayers are prophecies." He says, "In some sense, you can anticipate what you're going to experience tomorrow by what you're praying today." >> And we want to just kind of before we even get into our time of teaching, before we welcome you, and I know there are many of you that are tapped in from different parts of the country.

Some of you may be even in different parts of the world. But before we talk to you, we need to talk to him. ((music playing)) Cuz there are some things that I believe you need him to do that will not be done by teaching. It's going to be done by touch.

And so we're going to pray for that. Now the corporate faith in this space in this place physically and where you are wherever you are in the world as we gather together as we assemble digitally we're coming together and we're adding our faith together bombarding heaven with these requests believing that God's ear is leaning in the direction of his people and he is anxiously awaiting an opportunity to show himself strong on behalf of his people.

Prayer is your invitation for God's participation in your situation. You don't pray to notify God of a need. The Bible says he knows what you need before you ask. You pray to express your dependency. You pray to let him know that you recognize not only God, are you able to do this, but I believe you're willing to do this.

But I tr watch this. I ask you for what I want and I trust you with what you provide. You know what's best for me. So, Father, we just thank you right now for the promise that if we call upon you, you will answer. You said in your word, "Call on me and I will answer ((music playing)) you.

And I will show you great and mighty things that you know not of." And so, Father, there are needs represented in this ((music playing)) room and all over the world. And we pray, Father, that according to your word, you would meet those needs according to your riches in ((music playing)) glory. Father, we pray for the hearts of men and women that have been infected with despair and discouragement and disappointment.

We pray God for a resurrection of hope and a resurrection of faith and an arresting of anxiousness as your word tells us to be anxious for nothing, but in everything with prayer and with supplication ((music playing)) to make our requests known to you. And we do that today. I say, Father, provide for those that need provision.

Heal for those whose hearts need mending. Touch physical bodies that are dealing with sickness and disease. Restore broken relationships where the enemy has come in like a flood. We pray that your spirit will lift up a standard against it. You're the God that turns the the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of childrens back to the fathers.

We pray and we lift that up today. And kind father, as we prepare to receive your word, we pray that you'd open our ears and our eyes and our hearts. Help us to see what we hadn't seen before, to hear what we hadn't heard before, to experience what we hadn't experienced before.

We love your word. It is our daily bread. It's a lamp into our feet. It's a light into our path. So speak to us today. speak with such specificity that we feel seen and known and loved by you. We stand on your promise that your word does not return to you void, but it will accomplish all that you sent it out to do and it will prosper the thing ((music playing)) wherein you sent it.

Father, we stand in anticipation of that today. Our soul will prosper as a result of your word in Jesus' name. Amen. I feel a little oil on that prayer. My god. Clap your hands. Drop some fire in the chat. ((music playing)) Man, we're so grateful to be here. And uh man, happy pre-Thanksgiving to everybody.

Uh shout out to everybody that's going to be gathering with family and with loved ones. And for those of you that may be a bit down during this season, we know that for some people, the hol the holidays are triggering. Uh maybe for somebody, this might be the first time you're celebrating Thanksgiving without a loved one.

Or maybe holidays remind you of a loved one that's no longer here. I remember when my grandmother went to heaven. You know, some people in your family are what I call family anchors. And sometimes you don't even know how much they're holding unity in the family together until they removed.

Does that make sense? When my grandmama said come home, they came home. Aunts and uncles and cousins and uh I I know how things just shifted drastically when she went to heaven. There are family anchors and some of you are are um experiencing Thanksgiving without a family anchor.

And ((music playing)) um here's what God promises to do. This is important. Restoration, we say God will restore. Restoration isn't God always giving you back exactly what you lost. Even when you look at Job's story, he didn't get back exactly what you lost. I got two kids. If both of them go to heaven and then I have four more later, it still don't make up for the two I lost.

Doesn't do it. But restoration sometimes is God giving you himself what that thing gave you. So he might he's not giving mama back in this life, but God himself can give you what mama gave you. Comfort and love and security. And that's my prayer for those of us who are going to be experiencing some challenging times during Thanksgiving in in Jesus name.

And uh and for those of you that are going to have leftovers until Sunday, I'm praying for you. That's too long. Sunday. Amen. I understand. Friday. Sunday. My God. But anyway, may the Lord bless you real good if that's your testimony. Well, listen, man. We're in a a a series called um deprogram and I want to leap right into this lesson.

We're exploring Romans chapter 12 over the course of these next few weeks and um I know it's the Sunday before Thanksgiving and people are teaching a thanksgiving message and what I'm getting ready to share I hope we we are thankful for. But um we're in a season on Sundays where we're dealing with detox and so we're marrying that on Wednesdays with deprogramming.

And so let's jump right into this lesson. We're going to be in Romans 12. We'll be looking at verses 3 and uh 3 through 5 a little bit later today. But I want to remind you guys of something that's incredibly important yet I think often on to emphasize and that is spiritual development not only requires spiritual detox.

Spiritual development requires spiritual deprogramming. Detox deals with our heart. Deprogramming deals with our head. Detox deals with our past. Deprogramming deals with our future. And in last week's lesson, we looked at Romans chapter 12:es 1 and two. And we talked about the concept of deprogramming. In our time together today, I want to look at verses 3-6 and examine some content for deprogramming.

It's one thing to know that I need deprogramming. It's another thing to identify where I need some deprogramming. And here in Romans 12:es 3-6, Paul identifies a specific subject that I think many believers need to consider reexploring. And Paul broaches this subject called grace. I would contend that the average believer needs some deprogramming in the way they see grace.

Did you hear what I just said? >> I'm not saying that the average believer views grace incorrectly. I'm getting ready to argue that the average believer views grace incompletely. That I'm arguing that the average believer [clears throat] is operating with a reductionistic view of grace. That grace, watch this, for the average believer [clears throat] is simply limited to unearned favor. >> And that is not incorrect because grace, acronym grace, God's riches at Christ's expense is unearned favor.

It is when God as an act of love gives you and I what we could not earn through effort, he bequeez it to us through identity. It is him saying, "You can't earn it through what you do, but I'mma give it to you because of who I am and who you are to me.

I'm going to give you this gift called grace." So, yes, grace is unearned favor. It's important for us to see grace as unearned favor. I believe that many individuals who don't see grace as unearned favor don't experience life as God intended. Because when grace is properly understood, it doesn't produce an entitlement.

It produces appreciation. When grace is properly understood, watch this. It arrests anxiety and anxiousness because grace keeps you from trying to earn with effort what you can only inherit with identity. >> Isn't this the essence of the story of the elder brother? In the story of the prodical son in in Luke chapter 15, the elder brother says to his father, "All my life I've been slaving for you, and you've never thrown a party for me."

That's what he says. And the father says to the son, he says, "Son, everything I have is yours." >> Here's what's interesting. Now, both both the younger son and the older son receive grace. Cuz [laughter] the text says the father saw the younger son coming back home and he went to meet him from a far off.

But when the elder brother wouldn't come in the house because of he because he was upset with the father for honoring the son, the same father that went out the house to meet the younger son is the same father that went out the house to meet the elder son. >> Grace had to go get both of them. >> Did you hear what I just said?

So this man says, "All my life I've been slaving for you." And the father says, "All I have is yours. You've been trying to earn through effort what you inherit through identity." >> So he says, "You know how to work, but you don't know how to receive. >> You know how to be a servant, but you hadn't learned how to be a son." >> Wait a minute.

Did you hear what I just said? And many people know how to work for God, but they don't know how to receive from God. And they know how to be good servants cuz you want to hear well done, good and faithful servant. So they want to be a good servant.

And so they make being a servant the totality of their identity and not a part of their identity because before I'm a servant, I'm a son. >> And many people know how to be servants. They don't know how to be sons. So understanding that grace is unearned favor is important.

But here as we look at Paul's writing here, we're going to see that for Paul, grace is not just unearned favor. For Paul, grace is also unearned assistance. Let me prove it to you. For Paul, grace is not just a pardon. For Paul, grace is power. Can I prove it to you? >> I said, can I prove it to you?

Here it is. In 2 Corinthians 12, I'm going to read this. It's in your Bible, too. Now, 8:es 8 through9, Paul says, "Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take this away from me." He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you for my power." Wait a minute.

There it is. My power is made perfect in weakness. Yes, sir. >> Read the text. Now Paul says in second Corinthians, he says, "Now because of the abundance of revelation that was given to me, there's a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me concerning this thing, I sought the Lord three times that it might be removed to from me.

And on the third time, the Lord said to me, "My grace is sufficient." He said, "I got abundance of revelation, so I got abundance of warfare. I ain't asked for the revelation and I ain't ask for the warfare either. But more revelation you get, more re more warfare you get.

He says, "So to keep me from being conceited." >> Is that the text? >> To keep me from being conceited that was given to me, a thorn in the flesh, a messenger angelos of Satan. So he says, "This is what's given to me, a thorn in the flesh."

He uses vague terminology so that you can't exempt yourself from that experience. Cuz if you'd have said exactly what the thorn was, you could have been like, "That don't apply to me." But because he said it's a thorn, it said anything, watch this, that's irritating and agitating is just not debilitating. >> It's irritating, it's agitating, but it's just not abilit debilitating.

He said that was given to me a thorn in the flesh, >> a messenger of Satan, an angelos. So this means it's an individual or an issue. >> To buffet me is what King James uses. The word buffet means to strike repeatedly. >> It's not injuring me. But it's agitating me. >> And the purpose of the agitation is to get me to abandon my assignment. >> It's to make me say this not worth it. >> It's not killing me, but it's aggravating me. >> He says it's a messenger of Satan, though. >> So, Satan is the source. >> So, Satan sent it.

God saw it. >> He liked it. So, he left it. Wow. >> Satan sent it. >> God saw it. He liked it, so he left it. >> He says, "Paul, I know you don't like how this feels to you, but I like what this is doing in you.

Yeah. >> So, because I like what this is doing in you, >> I'mma give you the ability to endure what I'm not going to alter. >> And I can't alter this cuz it's altering you. >> The devil sent it. >> I looked at it. Thank you, devil. I like it.

So, I'mma leave it because it's doing something in you that's producing something in you that I don't believe can be produced any other way. So, I'm going to give you grace to endure when I'm not going to alter. So, grace here for Paul isn't permission to act dysfunctionally because I got a thorn. >> It is the ability, it is the power to endure a thorn.

I'm not changing. So, sometimes when people ask you how you still standing, you need to tell them grace. And when they ask you how you're keeping it together, you need to tell them grace. How you juggling all of those balls? Grace. How you handling all that responsibility? Grace.

How you dealing with such compound grief? Grace. Because grace isn't just a pardon. It's power. >> Can I keep proving it to you? Yes sir. >> In in Acts 4 verse number 33 it says with great power the apostles continued to testify of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and God's grace was powerfully at work in them all.

So you see a revival of sorts happening, a spiritual renewal happening, people being radically converted and discipled. And the Bible says that his grace was at work in them all. Meaning his enabling ability was making them uniquely effective at reaching and discipling people. This is really clear because Peter agrees with Paul.

Peter says in first 1 Peter chapter 4:10, "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others." Wait a minute. As faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. So he's saying even the gifts you have >> are a form or an expression of God's grace. >> Do you know that one of the words not the only but one of the words for spiritual gifts is the root word from which we get charismatic.

Not charismatic in terms of gregarious in your personality, but charismatic in terms of the belief in the perpetuity of the spiritual gifts or what we would call Pentecostalism. That that one of the words used to describe spiritual gifts is caris from which we get grace. Mata that's where charismatic comes from.

It means grace gifts. So the spiritual gifts you and I have are grace gifts. >> So if you got a teaching gift, it's a grace gift. If you got a mercy gift, it's a grace gift. If you got a gift of administration, it's a grace gift. If you got a exhortation gift, it's a grace gift.

If you got a leadership gift, the gift of tongues, the gift of prophecy, the working of miracles, whatever serving, whatever spiritual gifts you have, they're grace gifts. I don't have time to bother this, but I'm g bother just a little bit. Yeah. So, so, so are y'all following me?

This is why the Bible says gifts and callings are without repentance or irrevocable. >> Since it's a grace gift, there's nothing you did to earn it. >> Did you hear what I just said? >> So, there's nothing you do where God takes it. >> Now, here's what God will lift.

He won't take the gift, but he will lift the oil. talk about it. >> Well, you told me to talk about it. I'mma talk about it then. >> See, everybody in this room, I think we need to understand three things in this room online. We got to understand three things, family.

We got to understand spiritual gifts, the anointing, and then skill. Yeah. >> Spiritual gifts, special abilities distributed to the believer by the Holy Spirit for the purpose of serving the body and serving the common good. Some people reduce spiritual gifts just to that which God uses to serve the body.

But I can show you in scripture there are people Jesus and the apostles, right, served before those people got saved. >> And sometimes it was the miracle that made them open to the message of the gospel. >> I know I'm right about it. Did you hear what I just said? >> Yeah.

So, it's it's it's a grace gift. It means people don't earn the right to receive a gift. Even receiving the ministry of the gift is grace. >> Right. >> So, there are special abilities given to us by they're not natural talent. So a teaching gift is the ability to uniquely watch this exp uh interpret and explain scripture to people in a way that they can apply it to their daily life. >> I can have the the the talent to teach math.

That does not mean I got the ability to teach the Bible. >> Does that make sense? >> So So if you're teaching a Bible and somebody asks you WHAT BIBLE YOU READ, HOW DID YOU SEE THAT? THAT'S not education. >> That's a spiritual gift where God gives you eagle eyes and you see things.

And y'all know what I mean when I say eagle eyes? The the eyes of a eagle way more than his brain. >> Did you hear what I just said? The eyes of a eagle way more than his brain. And a eagle is able to see rabbits hidden in bushes >> from almost a mile away. >> It can see things that are hidden. >> The average eye misses it. >> But when God gives you eagle eyes, you see it differently. >> There's a prophet in the Old Testament named Isaiah. >> He is called, don't mess with me, Desan. >> He is called the eagle-eyed prophet. >> He sees uniquely.

That's a spiritual gift. >> The anointing is the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit that makes you uniquely effective at what God has assigned you to do. So the the anointing is connected to assignment. And when I step out of my lane, I step out of my oil >> because he only anoints me for what he's assigned me to.

So I can have the gift but the anointing makes me uniquely effective >> in the operation of the gift. >> Does that make sense? Now where skill comes in, it is the ability to deliver the gift that has been anointed by God optimally and effectively. Let me give you an example.

We go back to the teaching gift. Many of us have sat under teaching. we know is anointed but hard to follow. >> He's like, I felt God when he was speaking, but I don't know what that had to do with that >> because there's the gift and then there's the anointing and then there's the skill to coherently organize thoughts. >> Y'all following me here?

So, so the foundation of it all, which is that spiritual gift, is God's grace. The anointing that you can't earn is God's grace. And the ability to be exposed to what you need to be exposed to to develop the competency to do it well, it's all God's grace.

Which is why arrogance should be oxymoronic for the Christian. If it's one thing that shouldn't be named among a Christian, it should not be arrogance because we got a revelation that everything we got, >> come on here, >> it's all grace. And so grace needs to be understood.

There has to be a deprogramming. Grace doesn't just save me, it sustains me. It doesn't just elect me, it equips me. And if I have a comprehensive understanding of grace, it addresses three crises that I see in this text. And I'm going to share these crises and take my seat.

Here it is. The first crisis I see that a comprehensive understanding of grace will address is the crisis of identity. I see it right here when Paul says these words in the text. He says, "For by the grace given to me," I could stop right there. Verse three, he says, "By the grace out of everything he could appeal to," he appealed to grace.

He could have appealed to his education, to his pedigree, to his training, to his experience. He says, "But what I'm getting ready to say to you is I'm saying by grace both of them. I'm saying because I've been pardoned. >> Cuz I cuz I ain't cuz naturally Paul would say I'm not qualified to teach anybody."

[laughter] >> He said, "So the only re I'm saying this by by grace because I'm a recipient of grace. If it wasn't for grace, I wouldn't be in a position to say this. But he's also saying, I'm saying this by grace. I've been pardoned and I've got the power to say this.

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought. Now, here's where we got to have some deprogramming. Cuz in second way, that's where they stopped reading. >> But that is not where Paul stopped talking. He says,"Do not think more highly of yourself than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment >> in accordance with the faith that God has distributed to each of you." >> Did y'all Did y'all hear what Paul just said?

Yes. >> So, when you stop reading it, don't think more highly of yourself than you ought, >> you slide into a spiritualized low self-esteem. >> Cuz we automatically assume not thinking more highly of yourself than you ought means you think lower yourself. >> But that's not what Paul says.

He says just think of yourself with sober judgment. >> So, he's not saying think too low of yourself. >> He's saying think soberly. Don't allow your intoxication with anything to alter the way you see you. >> Don't let success >> alter the way you see you. >> And don't let criticism >> alter the way you see you. >> He says you need to see yourself soberly. you you don't need to be under the influence of anything but scripture and spirit when it comes to the way that you see you. >> So here's what's interesting now.

Both thinking too high of yourself and thinking too low of yourself is a rejection of grace. >> Did you hear what I just said? Okay. So when you think too high of yourself, you're thinking, I earn this. I'm self-made. My gifts are better than others. I deserve special treatment.

I don't need what others have. That's rejection of grace. But when you think too low of yourself, you're saying, "I'm worthless. I have nothing to offer. Everybody else is better than me. I should hide my gifts, and God can't use something like me." Pride rejects grace by saying, "I don't need it."

False humility rejects grace by saying, "Grace doesn't work for me. He says, "But think of yourself soberly." What does this mean practically? It means the mindset is, "I didn't earn what I have, but he gave it to me." >> Did you hear what I just said? I didn't earn what I have, but he gave it to me.

And he gave it to me for a reason. >> Am I making sense? So both thinking too high of yourself or low of yourself is a rejection of grace. Now I'm not going to bother this too much, but Paul says one other thing here that I think is often ignored.

He says, "Think of yourself with sober judgment in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you." So he connects faith not just to your achievement but to your identity. Wow. >> Did you hear me? >> He He [clears throat] says, "See yourself, think of yourself as sober judgment >> in accordance with the faith that God has distributed." >> So faith shouldn't just impact what you do.

It takes faith to properly see you. I feel like running on a Wednesday night. >> It take faith to see you. >> It took faith for Moses to see himself. >> He couldn't see himself. He said, "I'm slow of speech." >> You called the wrong one. >> He couldn't see himself. >> Jeremiah couldn't see himself.

He said, "I'm but a youth." >> Gideon couldn't see himself. He says, "I come from a weak family and I'm the least of that tribe." He couldn't see himself, but it take faith to believe that what you say about me is true, God. Even if I don't see what you say, >> I might be hiding from the Midianites, threshing wheat in a wine press, and you walk up on me and call me a mighty man of valor. >> When he called Gideon a mighty man of valor, Gideon was doing the exact opposite of what a mighty man of valor does. >> He is hiding.

He is threshing wheat in a place you should be pressing wine, trying to hide the harvest from the Midianites. So he's acting in a way that's being guided and governed by fear. >> And the and the angel of God walks up on him and says, "You mighty man of valor."

In other words, your behavior lying to you, ((cheering)) >> God almighty, your behavior is what lie. Let God be true and every man be a lie. Your behavior is lying. He's saying you are not what you're doing. And I got to tell you who you are so your behavior will line up.

Now, I'm not going to bother this cuz what Second Way does is Second Way tries to fix the wrong thing first. >> So, Second Way walks around screaming at everybody saying, "Stop threshing the wheat in the wine press." >> Behavior. >> So, it's behavior modification, >> not personal transformation. >> And behavior modification is shortterm. >> It don't work.

Which is why second way can't ever live what they teach. >> I don't care how y'all not talking to me. I don't care how passionate they are. They can't live what they teach because behavior modification is always temporary cuz you're depending on grit, not grace. >> Wow. Love. >> So he didn't the angel didn't come and say stop threshing weed in the wine press.

He said see yourself right. He said, "If I if I can get a transformation in the way you see yourself, then the there'll be a long-term metamorphosis in what you're doing." >> So instead of trying to do something becomes someone that does that thing. >> This is why there's so this is why even when the Bible when God talks about himself, >> he goes identity first. >> I am I am. >> I am.

And when he talks about you, he goes, "Identity. >> You are the apple of my eye. >> You are the head, not the tail. >> You are elected, selected, chosen, anointed, beloved, predestined, mine." He tells you who you are. >> Cuz it's not about behavior modification. is about transformation.

So a comprehensive view of grace solves the crisis of identity. Second thing I see in the text is a comprehensive view of grace solves the crisis of comparison. Watch what he says. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so we in Christ, though many, form one body.

One body, many parts. And each part has its own unique value. And if you don't understand that the part you play is a part you don't deserve, you'll start comparing your part to somebody else's. [clears throat] Right? Comparison steps in when you forget that even what you have you don't deserve.

So, what Paul's trying to get them to see is like, hey, uh, and and and we'll explore this when we get to when he starts listing some listing some spiritual gifts. What Paul's trying to get them to see is like, listen, the part you play in the body is the part God has chosen for you.

And even though culture and even church may label some parts as more significant than others, there is all that there is this comprehensive contribution that we are all making to the body. And we should be grateful for the grace given to us to play the part he picked us to play. >> He picks up on this.

This is not something that's unique to Rome because he talks about it in cor in his letter in Corinthians when he deals with spiritual gifts and he deals with what what I call charismatic classism and um that is the elevating of certain gifts to a place of importance over others.

And so there's some deprogramming that he has to do there because in Corenth what they were elevating was tongues. I don't hear anybody talking to me. That's what they were elevating tongues. And he's trying to get them to see not that this is unimportant. He's just trying to get them to see it is not more important than another gift, >> right?

And and [clears throat] he's trying to get them to see the different roles that these gifts play. And what ends up happening, guys, in the kingdom, we can assign value in church to something that makes it more important and more significant. And that value we assign it in church and culture could be inconsistent with the way God sees it in the kingdom. >> Because in in Corinthians he says the stuff that y'all value the least God actually appreciates the most. >> Am I making sense? >> All right.

All right. So there's the crisis of um comparison. And last but not least, [snorts] there is um let me just say this one one thing here because this is important. You know, your your your spiritual gifts and the part that God's called you to play on and in the body is part of your purpose.

Right? Here's what we got to we got to we need to deprogram it from this too. You don't pick your purpose. You discover it and you submit. The submission to it means there are parts of it you don't prefer. >> Does that make sense? >> I had a a spiritual son of mine.

I was talking to him last night and he he he called me. He say, "I need to be honest with you about something." He said, "I don't like what I'm, you know, planting the church." He said, "I don't like what I'm doing right now." I said, "Me either."

[laughter] Yeah. >> I said, "I'm not having a great time now either." Because there's this notion. [laughter] >> And there's this idea that purpose doesn't require submission. >> But the garden of Gethsemane >> is a model for all of us. You may not have a literal garden, but you're going to have a metaphorical garden where purpose is going to require you to say, "Not my will." in in some area of your purpose, it's going to require you to say, "Not my will, but yours be done." >> And so sometimes you don't get to do what they do cuz it ain't your purpose. >> You're more talented than them.

You're more educated than them. You're more exposed than them. You're more gifted than them. And you might be more anointed than them, but you weren't born for that. >> And that's why that is happening for them and not for you. But will you submit to the part he's called you to play? >> You see, there's no way you can really accomplish purpose without having a John the Baptist I must decrease season.

Cuz purpose requires you not doing everything you could. It requires a strategic submission and surrender of your gifts, talents, and acquired skills and say, "You do with these what you choose >> cuz you gave them to me. >> It's grace. So, how am I going to argue with you about what I should do with what you gave me that I don't deserve?" >> All right, TZ, we done.

Number three, there's the crisis of collaboration. Paul says, "And each member, we're not ready for this, belongs to the others." Your gift, not yours. Your life benefits from your fruit. Other people benefit from your gift. You can't teach you. >> You got a teaching gift. You can't teach you.

You can learn. You can't teach you. >> You got a prophetic gift. You start prophesying to yourself. I'm like, "All right." If you have the gift of exhortation, that encouragement gift that belong to the body. So it work on others in a way it don't work on you.

That's what creates interdependence >> where you where God says, "Yeah, I'm not giving there's only one person I'm giving everything to. His name was Jesus." >> And I'm going to take he's got all the gifts, but I'm going to spread the rest of the gifts throughout the body so that you belong to each other.

I'm creating an interdependence where there is a need for what I put in somebody else for you. >> Now, here's what's important. When you forget, this is why I say a comprehensive view of grace. Not grace just as pardon, not grace just as power, but grace as pardon and power.

Because when you forget, you've been pardoned. You become entitled when it comes to your gifts. Pain, disappointment, unappre unappreciation. will cause you to have a crisis of collaboration and you won't fully release a gift because you feel like you're giving it to people who don't deserve it and don't appreciate it.

And sometimes you right, but you still got to give it cuz it's theirs. You hosting it but it's theirs. is not yours, >> it's theirs. And so part of being like Jesus is recognizing I'm assigned to those who won't always appreciate what I'm offering. Guys, when I'm preparing a teaching or a message, I am laboring.

The way I I labor, knowing with all this laboring, somebody going to sleep. I want you to think about that. Full-blown sleep. Mouth open sleep. It's not yours. Because grace is not in the business of policing what people do with what's given. So when I remember that I've been pardoned, then the uses of my gift becomes an act of appreciation for my recognition of what God has graciously done for me.

Freely I received, so freely I give. I'm going tell you something. It is much more it is much less complex to be generous with your resources than it is to be generous with your gift. Cuz when you give your gift, you give a part of you. Y'all hear what I just said?

And I just sense right now that somebody's probably wrestling with that. There's some unappreciation that you've been dealing with, some disappointment that you've been dealing with, some abuse that you've been dealing, exploitation rather, that you've been dealing with. And I'm going to tell you something. You cannot be used by God without ultimately being used by man.

You can't be used without being used. Don't be naive. Don't be unwise. But don't be surprised. Because there are parts of it. You can't abort and you can't escape. Grace, not just pardon, but power. And um maybe somebody on this, what kind of message is this Thanksgiving? You're supposed to be happy.

I'm getting ready to ask you to consider repenting. repenting. Lord, I I've allowed pain. I've allowed frustration. I've allowed disappointment to cause me to forget. This gift not mine. This is grace. And you given me pardon and you giving me power. And I want to be a good steward over it.

Father, I just thank you today for Thank you for your word. Thank you for reminders, timeless truth that you deliver in a timely manner. Thank you for reminding us of the grander of your grace and the responsibility that we have to steward it well. Um, Father, in a season where we are all tempted to focus on what we don't have and what you haven't done, today in this Thanksgiving season, we say thank you because all that you have given is more than we deserve.

And we pray for the ability, the wisdom to steward that will in Jesus name. Amen. Well, listen. I want to thank you for tapping in. And I want you to have an incredible Thanksgiving. And for those of you that uh want to sew into the field that you are harvesting from, you know what to do.

Ways to give are on the screen. We're incredibly excited about all that God is getting ready to do in Jesus mighty name. But if you're not getting ready to get to cooking, you can stick around for a few minutes. We're going to answer some questions and uh continue our discussion here on this subject of grace.

Chase, you all right? You you in there. [laughter] Say, I wasn't expecting this. Give it up for Charles, everybody. How do we practically and actively cultivate a sober identity to espouse sunship or daughtership to detoxify our perspective on our circum circumstances or purpose? >> Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to answer this very simply because I think there is a reason that God like repeats himself when it comes to like our identity.

Like all throughout scripture, you just see like him telling you who you are, telling you who you are, tell and it's almost like at some point you be like, "Okay, if I am that, why you got to tell me?" Because here's the way King James puts it, as a man thinkketh in his heart, so is he.

So you're always going to behave in a way that's that is consistent with how you see you. So the more you are exposed to what God says about you, it is a mind renewing taking place. It is a biblical brainwashing taking place. So that the way you see you lines up with the way he sees you and your behavior now starts being consistent with how he sees you and not how you see yourself.

And so there is very simply there's a pattern I see in scripture where if a person is well this is what I would say if a person is struggling with what you just said you have to strate we call it um like when I teach people how to study the Bible after you read the Bible for familiarity you have to read it for feeding and I don't think we talk about this which makes me wonder if a lot of Christians actually read their Bible Because once you're familiar with it, why am I going through the Bible in a year every year? >> You need to be reading according to your appetite, according to your ailments, or according to your assignment.

What area in your life where you are you experiencing unique challenges right now? That's the area you need to be leaning into to see what does the gospel have to say about this. >> So, if I'm struggling with identity, I don't need to be reading on the rapture. >> We need to talk about that.

Am I making sense? All of the Bible is relevant, but there are parts of the Bible that are uniquely relevant for you based on the season that you're in. So, the study should be strategic after you read for familiarity. I think at some point you can just slide into pride.

It's just like I read the Bible every year. It's like, well, you don't live like it. You're still mean. >> You have the fruit of the spirit. So, it's like there should be strategic study. And so if a person if I'm struggling with the way I see me I should be in that word about that particular area feeding my soul that just after you familiar with after you've read the Bible for familiarity you got to read it for feeding make sense great question Charles anybody else let's take a couple more here's there's a mic right there so Pety you talked about this uh this like tripartite uh framework for being effectively activated and deployed.

You talk about spiritual gifts, anointing and uh skills. I want you to speak to this like tension I see scripturally in the Old Testament. Jeremiah is told chapter one verse five this about this like pre-incarnate pre-ordainment for him before you were born I ordained you a prophet >> you fast forward to the New Testament Paul tells the church at Corinth in 1 Corinthians 14 he's like earnestly yearn for spiritual gifts especially prophecy >> almost suggesting that there's a way that this gift could be downloaded even if it's not like pre-ordained like it was for Jeremiah could you sort of speak to that like tension of how they could earnestly yearn for something that it seems like he's suggesting they did not they were not born with. >> It's a great Yes, it's a great question.

Great question. And so let's take um because this is important because >> what you're really talking about is with Jeremiah is that's one example of passages in scriptures where we actually get to see a person experience a calling. We get to see it with Moses. We get to see it with Gideon.

We get to see it with Jar. We don't get to see it with everybody, but we get to see we get to see it with Peter. We get to see it with Paul. And so with this Jeremiah though, it's important to to notice the language he uses, right?

And it is almost like there the language he uses speaks to office and assignment, not ability. And even when Jeremiah begins to talk about what could be potentially an issue, which is his inexperience, God doesn't argue with him. He just says, "Don't say it." He says, "I'm but a youth."

God said don't speak it cuz you are youth. It's just not going to limit you the way you think it is. That I'm actually going to leverage your inexperience because you're going to be naive enough to say stuff that other people aren't going to say. That's why you're going to be surprised by the consequences and want to quit.

So what I would argue is Jeremiah Jeremiah's calling experience is like God affirming that you before time have been [snorts] ordained to do this. And because you've been ordained to do this as you obey me, I am going to equip you with what you need to accomplish this. So, so if we take that and then connect that to what you're asking about the Apostle Paul, here's what I would say.

I would say if you take Philippians 2:13 is the Lord who works in us the will and to do his good pleasure. If you look at all of the gifts in the Bible, some you might earnestly yearn for. I'm not because I believe when your will is submitted to the Father, he gives you the want to for the gifts that's for you.

You got me? So, it's like, yeah, it's pre-ordained for you to to have this, but I'm going to put the desire in you for this. And so, you're going to earnestly. It's too many gifts in the old in the New Testament for us to yearn for all of them.

Right. Right. But you're going to have a unique desire for some. And that unique desire might be because you needing that is a part of your destiny. Make sense? >> All right. The the key is man discerning is competitiveness or calling driving my yearning for these gifts. Yeah.

All right. Let's take one more. One more everybody. Anybody? Somebody somebody. Okay. Right here. Christian. >> Uh kind of tying this concept of deprogramming into some of what you've been teaching about detox um and bringing balance. So, how would you you said something so profound that your gift you might feel like it's underappreciated or that it's not deserved.

You still got to you still got to give it because it's not yours. >> What practical principles would a person use to distinguish between a gift being underappreciated but them still having to steward it well versus exposing themselves to spiritual bullying or abuse. >> 100%. What's the princip like how would a person decipher between >> So here's what here's what here's the way I believe here's here's the way I would answer that based off of Matthew 10 when Jesus sends the disciples out to use their gifts I think there's a difference between appreciation and receptivity there's a difference between appreciation and resistance so what Jesus when Jesus says hey let your peace return to you and go out and shake the dust off of your feet he's he's anticipating the disciples have the ability to discern a lack of openness And as a result of that, watch this.

They didn't make assumptions and refused to offer. >> Got me? They offered and then a person's response to their offering determine whether or not it was wise stewardship to keep using that gift on them. Here's what I'm getting at in this teaching. People will experience rejection in one village and not use your gift in any village. when the rejection in one village means not to it's bad stewardship to try to force it there but Jesus said go in the street shake the dust off your feet like shake that rejection off so that you don't carry rejection from one village into the next and then go on to the next one and I think that's the issue the issue is because Matthew 7:6 neither get that which is holy to the dogs don't cast your pearls before swine it is Jesus assuming you got the ability to discern where there's receptivity and not to force it there, but not to allow their rejection to cause you to be less generous when it comes to giving that gift to somebody else.

Cuz the gift that one village is rejecting, another village is waiting on that make sense. You know what Christians got to be okay with too? And I'm thinking about this and and I think I started this uh collective of pastors because I'm all about Third Way. So, I started this thing called Third Way Collective.

And one of the things that I'm going to talk about inside the collective is organizational insecurity. You know, you know how you can have insecurity personally, individually. There are a lot of leaders who got organizational insecurity. That's a symptom of a lack of clarity and conviction on your calling.

So, it's like from week to week, we don't know what kind of church you are cuz you're conforming to to critics >> because you don't have a conviction. >> I really don't care a lot what people think about change. Because I had a conversation in Steuart Hall in Princeton, New Jersey at Princeton seminary 20 years ago when I was sitting in a systematic theology class with Dr.

Daryl Gutter and he gave me the vision for it. So because I'm clear and I got a conviction of it, I don't have insecurity about it. >> It's just not for you. >> And you not for us. Does that make sense? Like it it can go both. It can go both ways.

It's like we not for you and then we don't want that over here. what you bring. We don't want that over here. Like it goes both ways. And I think believers often times assume you're all for everybody. >> And you got to be okay. This not for you, but it's for somebody.

And so what I'm going to do, I'm looking for who looking for this oil >> cuz that's who you for. And I think does that make sense? And I think a lot of leaders have organizational insecurity. You questioning your whole what God's called you to do based off of like what's popular, what's growing, what's this, what's that.

And um you got to know not just who you for, who you not for. You never saw Jesus chase anybody that left. Cuz sometimes walking like Jesus means letting some people walk away. So be the best version of you that God's called you to be and and embrace that.

Um because I think it's easy to personalize that um organizationally but also individually. I think people like personalize their Does that make sense? Like if if a person is going to be blessed by Darius Daniels ministries, Darius Daniel's teaching ministry, they are not going to be the kind of person that likes to leave their brain in a car when they come to church.

If if you like to then that's just it's it's not and it doesn't mean anything is wrong with them and it doesn't mean anything is wrong with me. It just means not for each other. And sometimes it's difficult for believers to wrap their to wrap their head around that.

Um because sometimes you want to be sometimes you're not for who you even love. >> You just trying to talk some sense into your girlfriend, trying to talk some sense into your family members. And it's like y'all family but your oil not for them. So sometime it take a stranger to come in and say the same thing.

You can't personalize it. Amen. Clap your hands everybody. We'll see you next time on the blueprint. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> Hey,