Home Work Pt. 4

Hey, what's up everybody, this is Pastor Keith Battle, and the first thing I want you to do is like, comment, share, and subscribe to this page. Today's service and sermon is called, Get In Line. What's it called, Asher Jones? Get in line. Get in line, people. That's it? Get in line. That's it. Let's go in the sanctuary, and you'll see why she said what she said. Alright, please stand with me, if you physically can, as we get into this word, and let me shout out everybody joining us on the Pando app right now. We welcome you, and it's a blessing to be able to connect with you. This is part four of the series homework, and don't be alarmed if you say, well I didn't hear the other parts. It's okay. You're going to understand this message. Consider it like an album, and the album has different tracks on it. This is just track four, alright? Let's go to the word, beginning at verse 18 of Colossians chapter three, this is our foundation passage. It says, Wives, be subject to your husbands. Why? For what? Out of respect for their position as protector, and their accountability to God, and it is proper and fitting in the Lord. It is in the Lord to be subject to your husband. Verse 19, husbands, love your wives. Husbands, love your wives. Husbands, love your wives.

How? With an affectionate, sympathetic, selfless love that always seeks the best for them, and do not be embittered or resentful toward them because of the responsibilities of marriage. You might get mad, but don't stay mad. You have to put a limit on anger. Don't let anger linger. Now that was worth the message for some of y'all coming to church. Just don't let anger linger. Anger is destructive. The longer it stays. Verse 20, children, obey your parents as God's representatives in all things. With this attitude of respect and obedience is well-pleasing to the Lord, and will bring you God's promised blessings. Right there. What is God's promised blessings? That it'll go well with you, and you'll live long on the earth. The quality and the quantity of your life is tethered to how you respect and obey your parents. Verse 21, verse 21, fathers do not provoke or irritate or exasperate your children. How do you provoke, irritate, or exasperate your children? With demands that are trivial, unreasonable, humiliating, abusive. How else can you provoke or irritate or exasperate your children? By favoritism or indifference. Even if you have a favorite child, don't let everybody know it. You know you prefer one of them jokers over the other. Don't even try to ... Just don't be so obvious. You know one of them kind of follows directions and is helpful, and some of ... Come on. But don't show it. By treat. Watch this.

How are we supposed to do this? How are we supposed to love them? God tenderly with love and kindness so that they will not lose heart and become discouraged or unmotivated. We're supposed to be gentle men. Gentle men. Why? So that they will not lose heart and become discouraged with their spirits broken. I wonder how many fathers have broken our children being tough and hard, and I don't play that around here, and I don't care how big you get, all that craziness. Just because you were raised wrong don't mean you need to repeat it. I don't care if you were fathered right or you weren't fathered at all. The standard doesn't change. Gentle man. Amen. Before you take your seats, I want you to give everybody near you my subject. It's two words. Two people. Tell them this. Get in line. Get in line. Put that in the chat if you're on Giant Anywhere. Get in line. Get in line, you may be seated. In Mark chapter six, there's a miracle that most people are familiar with, even vaguely familiar with the Bible, have heard about. It's when Jesus fed 5,000 with two fish and five loaves. Now when you look at that passage, it's in every gospel, it's in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Every passage says it was 5,000 men he fed with that amount of food. Now to give you a context on what two fish and five loaves was, it was a boy's lunch. So actually those fish weren't big, it was more like sardines and pork and beans. I don't know why that was gonna come up. It wasn't pork and beans. But it wasn't loaves of bread, it was more like muffins or biscuits or bagels. That was what he carried. Whatever the size of the bread was, it wasn't enough for 5,000 men, not including women and children, so we're talking about probably 15 to 20,000 people. So you know what that means? If everybody ate from that boy's lunch, that means that was a miracle. Everybody say miracle. Miracle. It was a miracle that everybody was able to eat, everybody, the Bible says, was full, and every one of the 12 disciples took home a basket of leftovers from that lunch. That's a miracle. Now people get excited about the mathematical brilliance or the mathematical amazement of the miracle, but what is often overlooked is, is that the miracle didn't happen till everybody got in line. What do you mean, pastor?

The Bible says that they were all listening to Jesus teach. It was just a crowd of people, so they're probably standing. There's no order to their standing. They're trying to get as close to Jesus as they can. But when it was time for the miracle and Jesus says, this is what he tells the disciples, he says, I want y'all, y'all gonna feed them from this boy's lunch. And before I bless this bread and fish and break it and pass it out, I need you to sit everybody down and get them in line. Now I'm gonna show you where this is in the scriptures. It's in the book of Mark, chapter six. I don't know what I did here, but let's go here. All right, there we go. He says, sit them down in groups. Everybody say groups. So now they're standing up, but he says, you gotta sit down because we're gonna bring this food to you. So I need some order because God doesn't work in chaos. He works in order. He says, I also want you to sit down in ranks. Everybody say ranks. That's order. 50 groups of hundreds and in fifties. There are 10, 20,000 people out here.

I need some order because we're gonna come down your aisle with some food. If you're not in the aisle, you ain't gonna eat because you only get the miracle when you get in line. I need you to tell somebody else real quickly, tell the same person one more time, get in line. See, if you want to be cool and fly and disobedient, I don't feel like sitting down. I feel like standing up. I'm chilling over here. You ain't gonna eat because God is a God of order. They had to sit down. That's humility. They had to sit down in rows and ranks. That's order. And in that place, the miracle came. Why am I sharing this with you? I believe that miracles about to hit homes in this church, but it's going to hit homes because people have gotten in line. It ain't gonna be no accidental miracles. It ain't gonna be no coincidental miracles. Maybe what's holding up the miracle in your house is you ain't in line. You're out of line. You're out of order. You better get in line because God's trying to bring something into your life. He's trying to bring something into your family,

but you are out of order. And until you get in line, the reason why you can't get playing time on the team, the reason why you can't get promoted and move up the depth chart because you don't know how to get in line. You think because you was bad in high school, you're going to come to college and run stuff. No, you got to get in line because it ain't just your talent, it's what's your, are you in alignment with the program? Are you in alignment with the style of play? Are you in alignment with the attitude? If some of your attitude is so far out of line, you can't be promoted. Tell somebody one more time, get in line. I'm coming for you today, get in line. And it ain't just wives supposed to get in line. The husband needs to get in line. The children need to get in line. Everybody needs to get in line because your blessing is in being in alignment. And anything that's out of order does not, is not, see, this is about positioning yourself. Are you understanding what I'm saying? Now, we're going to start where the passage starts in Colossians chapter three. Paul must've been a gentleman because he starts with ladies first.

Colossians 3.18 says, Wives, be subject to your husbands. That word we learned in this series, be subject to, one Greek word, the combination Greek word, hupo, taso. Now this is the thing, I've heard people never talk Greek in their life, they have memorized this word. Going around, hupo, taso. Hupo means under, taso means to arrange. When the Bible says wives, hupo, taso, your husbands, it means to arrange yourself under your husband. It is not a passive term where this has been dominated or forced on you, it is a volitional term. You choose to submit to this authority. It has nothing to do with value. A man and a woman are of equal value, both were made in the image of God. A man is no more valuable than a woman. A woman is no more valuable than a man. They both were made in the image of God, but one has the title. See, it really comes down to title. And so, when you arrange yourself under somebody, it means you're choosing to submit to the person who has the title. That's very important. Doesn't mean they're more valuable,

it means they're in the position of authority. Now, God, that's not just for wives in the Bible. Throughout scripture, you'll see this concept. For example, in Ephesians chapter five, verse 21, God, as Paul is talking to the whole church of Ephesus, he says, be subject to, that's the same word, hupotasso, one another. Whether you're, regardless of the gender, regardless of the age, learn how to arrange yourself under one another. Why? Because this brings reverence to Christ. Christ is the one you're following. That means, listen, it takes spiritual maturity to learn how to put yourself under somebody. How to get in line, sometimes, to get in line under somebody that's younger than you. But they got the position. And you felt more qualified, and you felt like you deserve it. Well, you can sit there with your arms folded, and pouch your lips, and rug your neck all you want. Or you can get to a place where you understand your value, and you understand your worth, and you're still willing to humbly accept the authority that's over you. Because your blessing gonna come from you getting in line. Amen, go A-Fasters. This the no-play game suit. MPGS.

Reverence is not about age, it's not about gender. It's about who has the title. Jesus gives us an example. First of all, Jesus is the perfect example. Listen to this about Jesus. In the scriptures, let me go to Ephesians chapter two. It says, Jesus Christ is the Christian example. That's why we're Christians. The Bible says in Philippians chapter two, verse five, have this same attitude in yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus. Get his attitude. Look to him as your example in selfless humility. What do we need to know about Jesus? Verse six, who although he existed in the form, and unchanging essence of God as one with him, possessing the fullness of all the divine attributes, the entire nature of deity, all of that is in Jesus. He did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped or asserted as if he did not already possess it or was afraid of losing it. You know what that's saying? Jesus wasn't like Simba and the Lion King saying, I can't wait to be king. He was already king. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, and then the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory being the only begotten of the Father

full of grace and truth. Jesus was already God. He ain't trying to be, he says equality with God is not something he sought after. He was already God. He's the eternal God, and yet in spite of the fact that he was God, which means he's equal to God, look at this, he made himself submit to God. Let me show you God's, this is God's divine org chart. First Corinthians 11 three. You should memorize this scripture or at least know where it is. Here's what Paul says. There's one thing I want you to know. The head of every man is Christ. The head of woman is man. The head of Christ is God. Now let's break this down. If the head of every man, boy, I wish I wrote good. The head of man is Christ. The head of woman is man. The head of Christ is God. Everybody say get in line. That's good. God, Christ, man. woman, God, Christ, man, woman. God, that's God's plan. It is not discriminating. He does not have a bone to pick with anybody.

This wasn't put together by some chauvinistic, narcissistic men who slipped this in your Bible while you wasn't looking. This is God's divine plan, and if you don't like where you are on this chart, you need to first of all say, understand that it has nothing to do with your value. It has to do with divine order. There's an order in which God does things, and just as Christ is equal to God, he gives us an example. You can submit to somebody that's on your level. Why? Because they got the title. God the Father and God the Son are totally equal. They just got different titles. You know what that tells me, Reverend Green? It tells me this, that, watch this, just because you got the title don't make you better than anybody else, because some of y'all get a title, especially in church. Boy, you get a title, and they just act totally, they walk different. Your title doesn't make you better than anything. Yes, walk in your authority. Your title recognizes your authority and your responsibility, but it doesn't make you a better human being than another person, so carry your authority without arrogance.

Now, back to Jesus. Jesus is equal to God, watch this, here we go. Here it is, Greek word. God, phaos. Christ, Christos. Man, aner, also means husband. Woman, gune, also means wife. Same thing in your marriage. Wife, husband, Christ, God. Wife, husband, Christ, God. Christ is equal to God, but he submits to him. The woman is equal to the man, but? Y'all got, that was weak. Get in line. Okay, let me see. First of all, it all starts with God. Go, let me go, I'll do it like this. Go to verse 11, same chapter. Go to verse 11, Jules. So this is, so, because two things can be true. So Paul establishes divine order, that he has placed man over the woman in the relationship. Now, this is primarily talking about marriage. When we talk about marriage in this series, so we're not just talking about, you're supposed to put yourself under any man, but if he's your husband, that's divine order. That's Colossians 3.18, it's throughout scripture, all right, but now, watch this.

Two things can be true. He says this, but among the Lord's people, ho. See, I'm not appealing to your flesh. I'm not preaching to your flesh. I'm preaching to the God in you. This ain't worldviews, this is kingdom stuff. This is God-like stuff. So you gotta get your mind in a different place, because the world has a whole different philosophy system, because you have to understand, see, when it comes to arranging yourself under people, it doesn't mean, you can arrange yourself under somebody that you don't even believe deserves to be over you, but they are. You can honor your father and mother, and one of them's on drugs, and the other one's an alcoholic, and the other one's an adulterer, and the other one's not financially astute, or whatever, but they're still your parents, and guess what, there's something wrong with you, too. You can get under somebody that you didn't vote for. I know you call him 45, and you got an orange hair, and all that, but guess what? Whether you like it or not, he's in authority, and as Christians, we have to understand authority, and be able to, watch this, be able to arrange ourself under authority, even if we don't like it. Now, if that is true globally, you don't have to like your boss, you must respect them.

You don't have to like the person who you report to, but you're supposed to respect them, because, watch this, maturity respects the authority of others. It is immature for you to act like you don't got, that's immature. So, if it's true everywhere, it's certainly true in your house, because you picked your husband. You can't say, I'm a Democrat, I wouldn't, no. You picked your husband, and he may not be all you want him to be, or everything you expect him to be, but he's still your husband, and while I'm saying that, you ain't everything he wants you to be, either. So, here's the thing. Now, let's go to this. So, there is authority in place, but watch this, among the lowest people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women. Like, there's no, we can't just say, I have no need of you. interdependent. That's that's how God has made us. And he gives an example, verse 12. He says, for watch this, although the first woman came from the man, every other man was born from a woman. Ah, how did man get here? From dust. Genesis 2, the man was formed from dust. Then the woman came out of the man. God put the man to sleep, performed a c-section on him, cut a rib out of him and built him a wife. And from that point on, every other human being came out of the woman. Nothing else came out of the ground. No other human came out of a man. From

then on, everything that's breathing has come through a woman. But before you get excited as a woman, you can't produce life without a man's seed. We need each other. Nobody's more important than the other. And check this out. And at the end of the day, we go to verse 12, and all of us and everything comes from God. It all starts with God. He's at the top. Let me go back to that verse. Let me go to that. God is over everything and everyone. See, this is the deal. When you look at God's divine order, it's not really about the hierarchy of a man over a woman. The real hierarchy is God over everybody. Think about that. Think about it. Is God over everybody? That means, let's have a conversation. I'm not trying to be insensitive. But when you're a human being, the Bible says God created man and he created woman. So regardless of what pronouns you decide to use, you are somewhere in there. I promise you, you are. You're somewhere in there. You could be A, B, C, D, E, F, G, but you're in here. You are not. If you're a human being, you're in here. Come on, y'all know I ain't cold like that. Just where you are. That means you're supposed to be under God. Everybody comes under God. We say family over everything, and I understand that. But the real issue is it really should be God over everything and over everybody. So everybody must be aligned to God. Everybody must answer to God. So watch this. A woman should be in line with her husband. And the husband's primary responsibility, this is where I really want to focus today, is right here. The man submitting himself to Christ. That is your primary responsibility as a man. Am I in line with Christ? Nothing else in your life is more important. That's where it starts. Am I in line with Christ? Because here's the deal. Even though Christ, there's equality all on this org chart. Christ is equal to God. Woman is equal to man. But there was one place on this continuum where there is no equality, and it is right here. Man is not equal to Christ. So you should, without any pushback, be submitted to him because you are not on his level. We are submit our lives to Christ. That should be our primary focus. What does that mean? That means you don't try to get your wife in line, and you don't try to get Jesus in line with the Father. And I'll say this too. When your children get to a certain age, it ain't your job to get them in line. You got a small window to get your children in line. Once they get a certain age, they're going to do what they want to do anyway, and it should take some pressure off of you. It is not your job to keep them in line. As a man, your job is to stay in line with Jesus. I'm staying with Jesus. I'm focused on Jesus. God, let God, God can see who's out of line. Come here, y'all. All six of y'all, since you're up here.

Give me a single file line, please, right here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why y'all don't give her a mic? Just single file, please. Okay. Can you be single file? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, he's still off. He's still, he won't. Single file, brother. All right. Now, Antoine, since you loose back there, get out of line, please. Get out of line. Now, can y'all see who's out of line? It's pretty obvious. Now, if you can see who's out of line, don't you think God can see he's out of line? Your job is to focus on the one in front of you. Keep your eyes on Jesus, man. Keep your eyes on Jesus, man. Keep your focus on Jesus, man. It's hard to follow when you're looking back, trying to straighten everybody else out. It's hard to follow when you're minding everybody else's business as a senior advisor and the senior vice president doing what they're supposed to do. Keep your eyes, get in line. Keep your eyes on who's in front of you. Because God not only can see that Antoine's out of line, he can see when Antoine's heart was out of line before he moved. Oh, that's so good right there he can see when it's Before he moves over here his thinking is out of line The Bible says God knows your thoughts even from afar. He knows when your mind is out of order So what am I saying I'm saying as a husband as a father stop worrying about is your wife in line stop worrying about it Your children in line God can see everybody that's out of line and God will deal with everybody that's out of line in his own way And if you're saying pastor, they sure been out of line for a long time. He's sure giving them a lot of grace Well, guess what when you think that way think about all the grace He gave you when you were out of line. I need to talk to the fourth right here. I'm at the wrong Church Whipperies, can you appreciate the grace that God gave you while he waited on you to stop smoking and stop drinking and stop tricking Y'all ain't gonna help me Get in line That's your watch this use your homework this your homework you got one assignment get in line Y'all can be seated get in line now, let me tell you something I'm gonna say something to single people Well, see what's happening over here is Is There's a person That has the kind of enthusiasm I appreciate You know 945 service over here is a little you know, it kind of ha

So it stands out more if she was at Zelo, you wouldn't even know it You go to Zelo, don't you probably go to Zelo? No, no, listen This is this is this is what I want to say to single people If you go if you're gonna decide to spend the rest of your life with somebody I Cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you make sure they are in line with God Now we like traveling. We like some of the same things. We both cowboy fans All That's fine they better be in line with God because let me take some marriage is hard Marriage is hard work. Anybody tell you marriage ain't hard work. They ain't married If they married they've been married like they got married Saturday They still like oh You gonna get there for me. Oh Just too much they've been married long marriage is hard work, but it's effective if you do it, right It's another level of work when somebody in the marriage is out of line, whoo Because the blessing of God is waiting on alignment And all you can do is get in line yourself, it's easy to follow you brothers when you're in line Now I say this because when you're single particularly when you're young and single when you're in your 20s and you're single You got a laundry list. You got a grocery list of what you expect. I Want them to have good teeth? I want to have good credit You you brothers say man. She got to be built a certain way. She got to be a certain complexion You know, she got to be good You know, she got to be good like this This is we have this and a lot of it is grandiose and immature and you would have 31 flavors like Baskin and Robbins But I promise you the older you get and you still single that list Well We can we can negotiate You Have it you ever go buy your groceries online

You know You go shop it on grocery online and then you you've got this put At the end of your order and you ready to check out and then it is something pops up on the screen and saying If we don't have these items Would you take these instead and you have to hit approve? I think it's called replacements or substitutions Now when you're in your 20s, really? Nope, I want what I want But when you get older you look at them replacements you'd be like I can work with that. I can work with it right at this point. I can work with that, too But let me tell you something what should never come off your list Is he is he or she aligned with God? Let me show you something Am I boring y'all? I don't care. This is the standard. We all need to be submitted to the Lordship of Christ, the authority of God the Father, and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Does that person have those qualities? And do you have them? You can't be a spiritual Pinto looking for a Ferrari. You didn't say nothing on that. I was just waiting on you. I'm checking your phone. I'm checking. How many of y'all remember Pintos? You can leave a Pinto running with the keys in it. Anybody mess with that. Pintos and Ferraris don't even fit in the garage the same. You shouldn't expect anything out of a relationship you're not bringing to it. Are you submitted to the Lordship of Christ? Is he on the throne of your life?

Are you submitted to the authority of God the Father and the leading of the Holy Spirit? It matters. Instead of saying this to somebody else, say to yourself, get in line. Let's stand. If you're not in line, it's a good time to do it. You know, when I was early this morning, I felt like the Lord was telling me that you know where some people are out of line. It's not just children got to get in line with their parents. It's on you. You can decide to be rebellious and disrespectful and all that. You're only hurting yourself. You can hurt your parents too because your parents care. But at the end of the day, ain't nothing they can do. But if you're going to get the blessing of God, you better get in line. Some of you will never be blessed at work the way you want to do because you're out of pocket. You're just out of pocket. And you're the elephant in the room. You think it's everybody else, but you're the elephant in the room, completely out of pocket. When you talk, you're out of pocket. When you show up, you're out of pocket. You're just out. You're just out of line. How many of you know what I'm talking about? You've seen it. This is very important. I mentioned that miracle in Matthew, in Mark chapter six, because the miracle only came when Jesus said, sit down and get in those rows. Sit down.

That's humility. Rows and ranks, that's order. Good about you. Sometimes it means, you know what it might mean? I need to join the church or I need to accept Christ as my savior. See, I like those people at Woodbridge today. I need to get baptized. I need to be in line with God. I need to be under a pastor. Some of y'all like coming to church because you like sermons. You're just a sermon junkie. You ain't going to do none of it. You just like hearing them. I told them at the earlier service, and I promise you, I don't say this with arrogance. I believe that many of the blessings of God on my life is because I'm in line with my pastor. I don't have a preacher. Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. is my pastor. You know what that means? He can sit me down. He can correct me. He can rebuke me. He can tell me what to do. You don't want that. You want to stay out of pocket. You want somebody that's going to coddle you, but I don't know about you, but I need correction in my life. Get in line, but this is the word I got this morning. Some of you are out of line because God called you into the ministry. I know it.

I heard it this morning. Some of y'all have been called into the ministry and you've made so many excuses why you won't respond. You have disqualified yourself from the one who knows all of your reasons. I'm not this. I'm not that. I've done that. God knows everything you did wrong. He knows all of your disabilities and incompetencies, and he still called you. And the blessing of God will come over your life when you get in line. Do y'all understand this message? So I want to open up the altar right now, and there'll be people at this altar to pray with you. And you're saying, I'm coming up here. I need to get in line. I need to get in line as a wife. I need to get in line as a child. I need to get in line with Jesus. I need to get in line as an employee. I need to get in line as a business owner I need to get in line as a teammate And some of you are in line, but you need to stay in line Lord help me to stay in line If that's you you're at Landover you're at Fort Washington you're at Woodbridge come on down to the front We're gonna pray the prayer of faith That will release miracles in your life Because you're in position. I feel alignment in here Hallelujah the prayers Prayer matters. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Come on. Come on We believe it I just believe it The prayers

We know that the prayers I just believe it They're valid The prayers I just believe it Yes, we know The prayers I just believe it Thank you Father Thank you for a life Thank you for a life Thank you for a life Thank you for a life In the name of Jesus In the name of Jesus No weapon formed against you shall prosper Every tongue that shall rise up against you God shall condemn It doesn't matter what happens It doesn't matter what happens It doesn't matter what happens Greater is he that is in you Than he that is in the world As greater days are ahead As greater days are ahead He's going to restore to you The locusts if he's done And the cacaworm and the pummelworm Because he's anointed you In Jesus' name

Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Strength A sound mind A sound mind In Jesus' name Get in line Get in line Get in line Learn how to follow Learn how to follow You don't have to run everything Glory, glory, glory Glory, glory Glory, glory We are victorious Glory Hallelujah Victory I speak victory over your family Over the generations that come out of your womb In Jesus' name In Jesus' name Victory, victory, victory Victory Glory, glory, glory I feel order I feel order

I feel alignment Glory, glory, glory Get in line Watch what God does Hallelujah Hallelujah Don't be afraid There's no fear in love Perfect love cast out fear In Jesus' name Glory, glory You are miraculous Yes, Lord Yes, Lord You are miraculous In all your ways Yes, Lord Say it again Say you are miraculous You are miraculous You are miraculous You are miraculous You are miraculous Yes, you are You are You are You are Lift your hands Father, we thank you for this time May the homework start with me

Work on me Help me to get in line with you Get in line with you It all starts with you And whoever you place in authority We trust your work In our lives We expect miracles We receive miracles As we position ourselves Under authority And under your hand And under your plan Now we thank you for breakthroughs That are coming all over this church All over these campuses Wherever we're meeting We thank you for what you're releasing in our lives We thank you that Who the Son sets free is free indeed And we thank you for your patience with us Hallelujah In Jesus' name In all of God's people People said, amen. All right, y'all. That was our service on Work Part 4. Get in line. Any thoughts? You got to get in line.

You got to stay in line. Yeah, it matters. It matters. Our alignment is connected to the blessing of God in our lives. And he honors that. He honors that humility and that living in order and under authority. Get in line. And do what? Stay in line. We'll see you next week.