Don't Let People Label You

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You sound great tonight. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:01.360 You may be seated. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.000 I want to talk to you today about not letting 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.160 people label you. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.240 Throughout life. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.520 People are constantly telling us what we can or cannot become, 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.320 what we do or don't have. It's just like they're 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:21.079 sticking a label on us. Too short, too slow, too old, 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.120 too many mistakes, not talented enough most of the time, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.440 these labels are not what God says about us. But 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.080 if we don't know any better, we'll wear them like 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.320 they're the truth. And the sad thing is, if we 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.840 keep them on long enough, they'll become so ingrained in. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.240 Our thinking that will become. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.560 What people have said rather than what God has said. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:51.280 Albert Einstein's teacher told Einstein's father, no matter what Albert does, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:56.480 he'll never be successful. Friends, people don't determine our destiny. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.240 God, does I know a gentleman that. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.520 Was told by his high school counselor that he was 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.880 not that talented and he should focus on the lowest 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:11.320 skilled job he could find. What happened That counselor stuck 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.040 a label on him, the low average, barely get by, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:16.240 not talented. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:17.919 He didn't know any better. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.520 He wore the label year after year in his thinking, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:22.720 I'm not that smart. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:24.440 I just don't have what it takes. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.800 He got a job at the local factory and stayed 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.440 at the lowest level year after year. One day the 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.840 factory closed and he went across town and applied at 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.760 another factory. This company had a policy that every applicant 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.920 had to take an IQ test. He took the test 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.520 and his IQ came back at the genius level. The 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.040 owner called him in and said, what are you doing 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.960 applying for this low level position. You've scored the highest 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:59.200 of anyone in our company's sixty three year history. That day, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.240 a strong hold was broken in his mind. That day 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.320 he removed a label that had held him back for 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.160 seventeen years. He eventually started his own company and even 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.000 went on to invent several products that are now patented 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:16.440 and in the marketplace. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:18.960 And some of you just like him. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.680 If you're going to rise to the next level, if 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.320 you're going to become everything God's created you to be, 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.159 you've got to remove a label that's holding you back. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.680 Somebody has convinced you that you've reached your limits, gone 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.200 as far as you can go, or you've made too 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.200 many mistakes. You're all washed up. You'll never accomplish your dreams. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.160 You just don't have the resources. No, people don't determine 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:43.880 our destiny. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:44.640 God does. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.039 When I was growing up, I was very small. I 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.920 grew six inches after high school. When I played basketball, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.560 At one point, I was practically a foot shorter. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:57.320 Than my teammates. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:02.880 Somehow I got the nickname everywhere I went. That's all 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.640 I heard, Hey Peanut, good morning Peanut. During the basketball games, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.800 in front of the whole high school class. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.200 Go Peanut, go. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:17.120 The cheerleaders, big G, little O go go. I was 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:22.000 the little old and no one said it derogatorily. They 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.520 just said it in fun. But I have to tell 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.240 you it didn't help my self esteem. Every time I 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.159 heard it, it reminded me of what I was not. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.520 I'm not as tall as everybody else. I'm below average, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.920 I'm not up to par. I let that label stick, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:44.240 and I became less and less outgoing, more quiet, more reserved, 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.839 all the cause of a label that I allowed other 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.919 people to put on me. One day, I did what 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.480 I'm asking you to do. I took that label off. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.440 I realized when God made me, he didn't make a mistake. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.240 He made me like I am on purpose. Now I 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.800 may be small, but I know dynamite comes in small packages. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.880 In the same way, you are not too tall, too short, 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:11.719 too old, too young. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.680 God says you are a masterpiece. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.400 Now put your shoulders back, hold your head up high, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.080 and wear that label proudly, child of the Most High God. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.159 Today in our schools, there's a lot of bullying. I 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.280 had a parent tell me recently how her tenuere old 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.120 son was being teased because he's a very eager learner. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.760 He's always reading books and taking extra classes, and even 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.400 at recess when the other kids are out playing, he'll 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.839 go over to a table and work on his math, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:49.040 and they're constantly giving him a hard time and calling 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.880 him different names. Listen, students, young people, when you work hard, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.919 you study, you make good grades, you stay on the 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:02.760 high road. People may call you stiff, nerd, geek, bookworm, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.719 but don't worry about it. In a few years they'll 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:06.960 call your boss. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.280 They won't be talking about you. They'll be working for you. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.920 Now, don't let their label keep you from becoming all 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.280 God's created you to be. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.880 Most of the time, the reason people say. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:30.200 Hurtful, critical things is simply because they are jealous of 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:30.840 who you are. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:32.920 Let me make it real clear. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.920 Most of the time, the reason you have haters is because, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.280 down deep, they want to become just like you. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:41.480 But the problem is. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.040 They've allowed their own heart to become polluted, and since 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.160 God won't let them rise to your level, the only 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.160 way they can justify not being where you are is 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:53.720 to try to. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.320 Find fault and criticize. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.320 They think if they can push you down and make 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.640 you look smaller, it'll make them look bigger and they 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.680 won't feel so badly about themselves. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.520 Eleanor Roosevelt said. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.360 No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.840 They may call you names, try to make you look small, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.360 but you don't have to wear their labels. Now I've 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.760 learned you are not what people call you. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.000 You are what you answer to. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.320 They can call you dumb and old and fat and 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.400 loser and failure. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.680 Don't answer to that. That's not who you are. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.960 Just keep moving forward, being your best each day, doing 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.359 great things in life. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.440 You don't have to let their labels stick. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.679 Every once in a while, my children and I will 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.560 make chocolate chip cookies. The instructions tell you to grease 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.320 the pan so the cookies want stick. We use a 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.000 product called PAM and you spread it on the pan 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.000 and keeps the cookies from sticking. In the same way, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.600 when you keep your mind focused on what God says 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.440 about you, you go through the day dwelling on the 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.400 fact that I can do all things through Christ. I 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.000 am strong in the Lord. Favor surrounds me like a shield. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.080 Goodness and mercy are following me. When you meditate on that, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.480 it's just like your spray and pam all over you. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.600 Nothing else can stick. Somebody tells you. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.719 Well, you're too tall, you're too short, It. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:19.680 Slides right off. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.160 No, No, I know, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.920 I'm one of a kind. That's the label I'm choosing 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.360 to wear. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.079 Well, it looks like that problem is never going to 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.880 turn around. Looks like it's permanent. No, I know, this 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.360 too shall pass. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.600 but the Lord delivers me out of them all. When 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.800 you think thoughts like that, what God says about you, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.280 those wrong labels will not be able to stick. This 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.000 is what my father did. He went through a great 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.080 disappointment early in life. When he was a young man, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.360 he got married. It wasn't a good choice and the 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.640 marriage didn't last. My father devastated. He thought his days 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.560 of ministry were over. Didn't think he'd ever have a 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.240 family again. He resigned his church, got out of the 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.400 ministry and started selling insurance. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.200 Was the lowest point of his life, and. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:19.319 Unfortunately the people around him were not very merciful. They 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.560 told him he was not welcome in their church anymore. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.400 He had his chance, but he blew it. They stuck 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:31.600 the label on him failure, not usable, washed up. See, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.040 sometimes when you're down, people will try to keep you down. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.480 They'll remind you of all the reasons why you're never 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.280 gonna be what you could have been. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.520 But don't believe those lies. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.320 God knew every mistake you would ever make, and he 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.839 is already arranged a comeback. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:50.800 Now you've got to do your part. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.520 You cannot sit around in self pity, wearing these wrong labels, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.040 thinking you're washed up. You got to sit on the 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.680 sidelines of life. That's what my father did for several years. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:03.800 He believed those. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:09.120 Lives and live defeated, depressed, no passion for life. One 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.120 day he realized what I'm telling you, that people don't 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:14.319 determine our destiny. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.880 God does. We don't have to wear. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.920 The labels that they try to stick on us. Don't 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.120 get me wrong, I am not for divorce, but I 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:28.200 am for divorced people. You may have gone through some setbacks, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.040 some failures, you may have made some poor choices, but 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.320 know this God is a god of another chance. His 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.600 mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. His calling will never 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:45.360 leave your life. Jesus came to lift the fallen, to 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.480 restore the broken, to heal the hurting. Some of you 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:55.000 are still wearing those old labels, guilt, condemnation, washed up, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.240 not usable. God has some new labels for you tonight. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.880 Will you dare wear them? The label God has for 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:10.600 you says forgiven, restored, new beginning, beauty for ashes, joy 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:11.280 for mourning. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.800 My father began to let these new labels stick. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.200 One day he met my mother and they got married, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.120 eventually had five children. My father got back in the 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.920 ministry and went on to pastor churches for over fifty years, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.880 was married to my mother for nearly forty seven years. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.600 He saw God restore him in amazing ways, do great 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.960 things with his life. God will do the same thing 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.119 for you if you will simply wear. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:40.800 The right labels. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.720 I think about a young lady in the scripture. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.600 Her name was Rayhab. She was a prostitute. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.880 She'd made a lot of poor choices in life. I'm 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.079 sure plenty of people had written her off and seen 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.480 her as a scorn on society. No doubt she was 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:02.720 wearing the label failure. Out came asked, not valuable, no future? 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.240 Surely God wouldn't have some new labels for her to wear. No. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.360 People may give up on us, but God never gives 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.600 up on us. One day, Joshua, the people of Israel 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.920 were about to go into Jericho, across the Jordan River. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.240 Jericho was where Rehab lived, so Joshua set two men 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.360 in to spy out the land. Word got out that 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.480 the spies were there, and Rahab took the men into 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.120 her home and hid them. In other words, she took 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.040 a stand for what was right. She felt the God 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.920 of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob calling out to her, and 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.439 she responded in faith. When the security forces came looking 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.200 for the two men, she covered for them and said, hey, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.720 they're not here, they've already gone. She risked her own 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.680 life by sticking up for these men. The two spies 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.800 told her, we were going to wipe out the whole city, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.840 but because you've honored God by show in us favor, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.319 we're going to spare you and anyone in this home. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.440 Rahab and her family were the only ones that were saved. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.360 But here's what's interesting. Rayhab went on to marry a 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.120 Jewish man. They had a son, named Boaz Boas married 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.960 Ruth and had a son named Obed. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.960 Obed had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:24.680 named David. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.480 That means Rayhab, a former prostitute, is in the family 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.040 line of Jesus Christ. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:32.640 What am I saying? 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.680 You are not what people label you. You are what 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:43.240 God labels you. People labeled Rahab outcast, failure, not usable. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:50.560 God labeled her chosen, restored, valuable, masterpiece. Some of you today, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.640 if you could just get rid of the wrong labels, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.240 if you just quit thinking about what people have said 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.320 about you, things like he'll never amount too much, He 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:03.520 just too far out. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.480 She'll never have a position of influence. I know what 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:07.240 she used to do. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:12.320 He'll never accomplish his dreams. He comes from the wrong family. Now, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.840 you don't know the amazing things God has in your future. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.160 You may consider yourself kind of like Rayhab, too far out, 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.360 too far gone, not religious enough. Now, let me tell 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.040 you God loves to take people just like you and 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.680 pour out his mercy and favor in amazing ways. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:32.720 But it all starts with you. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.760 You've got to get rid of the wrong labels. Quit 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:41.120 telling yourself I'm washed up, I've made too many mistakes. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.840 I'm not talented, I'm not attractive. Now put on some 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:51.040 new labels. I'm restored, redeemed, anointed, equipped, and empowered. This 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.480 is what David had to do when the Prophet Samuel 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.680 came to his home to anoint one of his father 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.840 sons as the next king of Israel. His father, Jesse, 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.840 didn't even bother bringing David in from the shepherd's fields, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.720 where he was out taking care of the sheep. In 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.560 other words, Jesse thought, I'm. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.320 Sure it's not David. He's too young, he's. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.720 Not as talented as his brothers, he's not that smart. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:17.920 I know it's not him. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.960 Prophet Samuel looked over the other seven sons and one 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.920 by one said, not this one, not this one, not 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.320 this one. Finally got to the last one, said Jesse, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.880 don't you have another son. Jesse said, Oh, yeah, David's 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.840 out there in the fields. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.720 But I'm sure it's not him. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.600 Friends, God doesn't label us the way people label us. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.160 People look on the outside, but God looks in the heart. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.120 God knows the destiny he's already planned. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:46.280 Out for you. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.920 God loves to take the most unlikely people and use 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.320 them in amazing, extraordinary ways some of you have let 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.200 your mistakes, what you think you don't have, and how 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.040 you haven't measured up to someone else in your family 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.240 keep you from rising up and really believing in yourself. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.960 As long as you're wearing those labels, it limits what 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.920 God can do. Even Rahab, in spite of all of 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.480 the mistakes she made, in a moment of faith, she 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.200 dared to believe. She dared to say, I've been raised 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.639 up for such a time as this. I can do 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.840 something great. I can help save God's people. She not 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.359 only believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.000 but she believed in herself that she was a person 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.639 of destiny called and chosen by Almighty God. When David 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.120 came in from the shepherd's field, Samuel saw him and said, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.480 that's the right son. He's the next king of Israel. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.680 Right then and there, David had to get rid of 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.879 the old labels. He had heard them a thousand times. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.640 He's just a shepherd boy. He's not as talented as brothers, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.800 he's not big enough. He had to remove the wrong labels, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.400 and he put some new labels on anointed, equipped empowered. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:12.080 It's interesting even though his other brothers saw Samuel annoyed 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.240 him king, they still tried to stick their old labels 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.679 on him. When David was out where the army had gathered, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.359 his oldest brother, Eliab said, Hey, David, what are you 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.640 doing out here? And with whom have you left those 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.159 few sheep you're supposed to be taken care of. What 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.360 was Eliab doing trying to stick his old label on him? 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:38.320 Not talented, weak, intimidated, inferior, David could have thought, yeah, right, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.240 what was I thinking? He could have let those wrong 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.760 labels keep him from his destiny, but not this time. 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.280 He rose up in faith and said, Eliab, it doesn't 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:48.960 matter what you. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.280 Say about me. That doesn't change what God has said 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:56.080 about me. You're still sticking those old labels of wheat, defeated, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:57.359 not able to you. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:03.160 Don't realize I've removed those, and Almighty God, the creator 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.960 of the universe, has put some new labels on me. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:11.760 They say giant killer, more than a conqueror, destined for greatness. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:12.280 King of Israel. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.679 See, sometimes the people that have known us the longest 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.440 will be the least likely ones to accept change and 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.320 celebrate the new things God is doing in our lives. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.840 When Jesus went back to where he grew up. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.440 This was after he had done many miracles, after he 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.920 had started his ministry. He went back to his hometown, 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.800 saw his old friends, that people he knew way back when, 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:44.240 they said, is this not the carpenter's son noticed they 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.600 had an old label on him. They were trying to 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.480 keep him in his box. They were saying, in effect, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.320 he's nothing special. Don't believe what you hear about him. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.160 We grew up with him. He's just a plain, old, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:01.120 ordinary guy. Jesus could do no miracle in his own hometown. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.720 One reason is because the people would not accept who 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.240 he had become. Some of the people that knew you 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:13.280 way back then, they may never accept you for who 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.760 you are now. They may never give you their approval 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.280 or the credit that you deserve. The good news is 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.720 you don't have to have their approval. God gives you 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:24.840 his approval. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:26.200 Now here's the key. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.160 Don't get frustrated if they keep labeling you the old way. 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.479 You don't have to prove to anyone who you are. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.760 Your reputation, your actions will speak for themselves. They may 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.560 try to discredit you, knock you, keep you in a box. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.560 Your attitude should be no big deal. I am not 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.240 who you say I am. That's who I used to be, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.160 But now I've come up higher. In other words, I'm 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.959 not a shepherd boy anymore. Now I'm a king of Israel. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.280 I'm not a woman of the streets anymore. Now I'm 0:20:58.320 --> 0:20:59.919 a woman highly favored by God. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.960 I'm not a failure. I'm not a loser. Yeah I 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.480 had some setbacks, but that's over and done. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.159 Now I'm redeemed, restored, and on my way to an 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:10.119 amazing future. 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.600 I think about a young man in the scripture. His 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:16.760 name is Jabez. 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:23.960 His name actually means pain, trouble sorrow. We don't know 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.080 why his mother would name him this. Maybe she was 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.440 very poor and didn't need another mouth to feed. Maybe 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.920 she had a terrible time giving birth. But no doubt 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.760 this mother was a very bitter woman, because instead of 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.879 celebrating the birth of her son and being happy for 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.879 his life, she tried to project her own bitterness and 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:50.359 hurt onto him by naming him pain trouble sorrow. You 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.840 can imagine how this could have affected ja Bez. He 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.199 could have lived a life very defeated upset. I mean, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.920 every time someone said hello, Jabez, they were saying, hello, pain, 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:07.040 here comes Jabez, here comes trouble. He could have gone 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:08.080 year after year. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:12.120 We're in those labels that his own mother put on him. 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:17.120 No, Jabez understood this principle, he said, in the fact, 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:20.000 my mother may have said I'm a pain, she may 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.880 have called me nothing but trouble. But God, I believe 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.840 that I'm a person of destiny, called and chosen by you. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.000 And God, you said that your plans for me are 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.080 for good and not evil. So God, I'm asking you 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:39.200 to bless me. Not a little, not mediocre, not average. No, God, 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:43.520 I'm asking that you would bless me. Indeed, think of 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:47.240 the nerve of Jabez. What right did he think he had, 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.880 with all these wrong labels to think that God would 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.560 still do something great with his life. I can imagine 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.520 God saying to the Angel Gabriel, look down there at Jabez. 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.639 All the odds against him. His own mother has labeled 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.920 him a pain, a failure, a loser. But listen to 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.840 what he's saying. He still believes he has a great future. 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.720 He still believes he's a person of destiny. He believes 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:16.600 what I've said about him more than what his own 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:20.399 mother said about him. Friends, that's the kind of faith 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:24.200 that gets God's attention. Like Jbz, you may have gotten 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.120 off to a rough start in life, had some negative 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:31.000 things spoken over you. But if Jabez were standing before 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.840 us tonight, he would look in the eyes and say, 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.920 don't let what other people have said about you keep 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:39.040 you from your destiny. 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:41.320 Don't wear their labels. 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.359 Because ja Bez was bold enough to get rid of 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:50.520 the wrong labels, because he enlarged his vision. The scripture 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:55.159 says that God granted him his request. In other words, 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.560 God took in places that he never dreamed of. That's 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:00.960 what God wants to do for each one of you. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.440 You may have had some negative things spoken over you, 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:08.520 maybe just your own thoughts. The voices in your own 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:12.000 head are labeling new things that would hold you back. 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:15.640 There's a great promise we can stand on now. Isaiah 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:20.399 fifty four seventeen. It says no weapon formed against you 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:24.600 will prosper. Here it is but every tongue raised against 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:28.920 you in judgment. That means every wrong label you will 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:30.200 show to be in the wrong. 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:31.440 Notice. 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.000 Number one of the good news, what they said about 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:37.639 you is not going to prosper, And number two very important, 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:40.480 God's not going to do it. You've got to do it. 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:43.920 You will show to be in the wrong. That means 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:47.160 we have to get rid of the old labors. Does 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:50.399 it matter what the coach said, the counselor said, the 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:54.840 ex spouse said, or like Jabez, even what your mother said. No, 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:58.119 God has the final say, and he says that His 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:02.000 plans for you are for good and not evil, to 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:06.040 give you a future and a hope. That means nothing 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:10.520 that was spoken over you can define you, even if 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.240 it was from your own mother or father. It means 0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:17.200 that nothing that's happened in your past has to keep 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:21.159 you from your God given destiny. Even if you failed 0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:25.240 are gone through unfair situations, you can show it to 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:29.000 be in the wrong by rising up in faith, shaking 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:31.840 off the self pity, and moving forward with your life. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.000 Friends, you are not who people say you are. 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:38.159 You are who God says you are, and he says 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:42.399 you have seeds of greatness on the inside. Will you 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:46.920 dare be bold like Jabez and don't just remove the 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:52.000 old labels, but in larger vision, dare to say, God, 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:56.240 I'm asking you to bless me. Indeed, God, in spite 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:58.879 of the mistakes I've made, in spite of what they 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:02.240 said about me, God, I believe that you can take. 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:06.360 Me places that I never thought possible. You say, Joel, 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:08.720 I don't know how that could happen for me. I've 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:09.480 been through a lot. 0:26:10.359 --> 0:26:13.920 I just don't have the resources, the connections, the education 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.480 to accomplish my dreams. Now, you may not see away, 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:21.640 but God has a way. I think about the bumblebee. 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:25.880 All the laws of physics say the bumblebee cannot fly. 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:30.560 Its body is too big for its wings. Technically it 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:36.000 needs a larger wingspan. For years, experts in aerodynamics have 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:40.000 studied the bumblebee and their conclusion is it cannot fly. 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:43.800 They stuck a label on it. Grounded has to walk 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:48.960 wherever it goes. The only problem is the bumblebee could. 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:53.439 Not understand what the experts were saying. Therefore the label 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:54.280 would not stick. 0:26:55.720 --> 0:26:59.800 Now, against all the odds of aerodynamics, in spite of 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:04.359 what the experts, engineers, scientists have said, the bumblebee flies 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:07.800 wherever it wants to do you know why the bumblebee 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.960 can fly because God told it to fly. God is 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:16.040 not limited to the laws of nature. If you will remove, 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:22.080 if you will remove the wrong labels, you will be 0:27:22.200 --> 0:27:26.440 amazed at how far your wings can take you, much 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:30.880 farther than people have said about you. It's because God 0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:35.520 breathed his life into you. You have ability talent that 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:40.400 goes beyond the natural. Some of you today you're not flying, 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:44.360 and it's not because you weren't created to, but because 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:48.560 somebody put a label on you that you believed. Now 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:51.960 it's become a stronghold in your own thinking. It's limiting 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:56.080 what God can do. I'm asking you to remove the 0:27:56.280 --> 0:28:01.520 old labels and start relabeling yourself and your future with 0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:02.840 what God says about you. 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.879 That label that says you've reached your limits, remove it. 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:09.880 Put on a new label. The path of the righteous 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:12.440 gets brighter and brighter. My best days are still in 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.399 front of me. That label that says you're too short, 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:19.000 too old, not talented enough, you come from the wrong family. 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:22.800 Remove it. The new label is I am fearfully and 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:24.760 wonderfully made. Well. 0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:27.560 You're never going to be successful. All the experts says 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:28.960 you're never going to get off the ground. 0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:31.640 Remove it. The new label is God. 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.680 You said I would mount up with wings like the eagles. 0:28:35.040 --> 0:28:37.520 I know I was destined to shore to live a 0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:43.760 victorious abundant, fulfilled light. If you will remove the wrong labels. 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:48.880 I believe, like Jabez, God will bless you. Indeed, like 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:52.560 my father, you will see God restore you and give 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:56.240 you beauty for ashes. Like David, God will take you 0:28:56.320 --> 0:28:59.400 from the background and put you in a position of influence. 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:03.440 And like Rehab, God will break a curse and help 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:06.840 you make a mark for generations to come. I want 0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:10.120 to declare over each one of you, because you're wearing 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:14.320 the right labels, You're going to see Ephesians three twenty 0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:17.160 come to pass in your own life. God is going 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:21.680 to promote you. He's going to increase you. He's going 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:25.800 to open up supernatural doors. He's going to bring divine connections. 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:29.400 He's going to turn negative situations around. 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