And I'm really excited this week to jump back into the message. I feel like God's got a lot for us today, so I hope you're ready. And I hope you're focused. Sam focused.
We talked about getting off the plane last week. There's more. Not getting stuck in the cabin and the importance of stepping into what God has called us into. But I have another question in church.
What happens after that? You guys like these questions, don't you? See, here's what I think happens. Some of us land, take our victory selfies, and then sit in the terminal like the trip is over.
I'm going to say it again. Think some of us land and step off the plane. But then we go sit in the terminal like the trip's over. But see, today we're going to see Joshua's story teaches us this.
When God gives you an assignment, it's not over after one yes. I want you to look to someone around you and tell them, don't unpack yet. You're still moving. All right, now the person you didn't want to look at, tell them.
I'll just get it. You keep it. All right. So I'm going to talk today, and I'm going to use up every bit of my time to land this plane because God put a lot on my heart, but I'm excited for us.
But I want to tell you guys, board again the assignments not over. If you're wondering, I had the team hand out some boarding passes. If you didn't get one, it's OK. You might need to share one.
That's fine. But God gave that to me. It's something we're going to do with at the end. But I feel like people need to hear today, hey, board again, the assignments not over.
Amen. One amen. All right, so here's a little gist, a little rundown, before we jump into the whole message. Joshua here is one clear mission from God.
Lead my people into the land I am giving them. He gives them a promise and the process. And that assignment church carries him through the rest of his life. Need you to hear me.
The assignment that God gave him carries him through the rest of his life. I want to tell somebody today, God's last instruction is still your current assignment, until he says otherwise. Church, please, hear my heart today. Don't confuse a completed step with a completed mission.
There's going to be multiple steps in the mission. Amen? There's going to be multiple steps. Don't complete one and think, oh, the mission's over.
There's going to be many more steps in the mission. So if you got your Bibles, I'm going to read Joshua starting in chapter 1 and verse 1. And we're going to read to verse 9. If you got your Bibles, wave them at me.
All right. OK, we got some Bibles in here. Who's got it on their phone? Yeah, there you go.
It's all right if you don't have it. It's going to be on the screen. But in Joshua 1 starting in verse 1, after the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of none, Moses's assistant. He said, Moses, my servant is dead.
Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River, into the land I am giving them. I promise you what I promised Moses, where you set foot, you will be on land I have given you. Someone say amen. Verse 4, from the short gap wilderness in the south, I just want to make sure you are awake, to Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean sea and to the west, including all the land of the Hittites.
No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you.
Somebody needs to hear that this morning. Verse 6, be strong and courageous. For you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I have swore to their ancestors I would give them. For you are the one who will lead these people to possess.
I don't know why I feel like God's bringing somebody in to know and if they're the one today leading this assignment, he's called them too. Somebody today is going to grab a hold of the mission, the assignment that God has given them today, and they're going to realize it's got to be you. All right. Shoo.
Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey everyone. Say obey. All the instructions Moses gave you.
Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything that you do. Verse 8, study this book of instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night.
So you will be sure to obey. Say obey. Everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.
Can I read that one more time? Study this book of instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night. So you will be sure to obey.
Everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. This is my command. Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Father, thank you for your word this morning. Thank you that you're with us wherever we go, God.
We trust you. We love you. And the church said. Amen.
Amen. All right. So we're going to jump into this. So what I want to do is I want to give you, we're talking about Joshua.
So I'm going to give you Joshua's the obedience flight plan of Joshua. We're going to study Joshua today throughout the scripture. And we're going to see the obedience. Because did you hear what that last verse says?
Obey. Obey. Obey. Then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
So this is the first point of Joshua's first flight plan. It's boarding the gate. The call. The flight announcement comes on.
Lead my people into the land I am giving them. Joshua doesn't get a full travel map. He gets the first destination. He gave me the promise.
Joshua won three in the process. Abay my commands. Be strong and courageous. Was it pretty clear from the start from the get go that he says, hey, you're up.
Next up, I want you to lead my people into the land that I promised them. And oh, by the way, all you got to do is obey and be courageous. Pretty simple, huh? No?
It's pretty clear. Pretty clear. Here's what God was telling me as I was reading this. I don't have to continue to renounce.
Re-announce the mission at every stop. You just keep moving until you're done. See, he gave him the initial, the boarding pass. He took the call.
That's the boarding pass. He entered the gate. He's on the plane. He's going to the plane now.
Next we're going to go to take off. But do you hear what I'm saying? That there was a mission. Lead my people into the land.
He's got the mission. Church, you're going to hear my heart this morning and I think there's a lot of people that need God to keep reminding them the mission. That the mission was to lead my people into the land. And that there's going to be a lot of stops in it.
But every stop I'm not going to keep telling you, hey, lead my people into the land. That's already done. I've already gave that to you. I need you to keep stepping into the promise that I've already given.
Can I get one amen on this side? Shoe, this side, can you help me out? Like, you don't have, he's not going to keep just saying, hey, listen, lead my people. Lead my people.
Lead my people. Lead my people. No, you are the one that's going to lead my people. And here's how I want you to do it.
I want you to obey everything that you heard and learn from Moses. And if you do that, you're going to be successful. So he's given him this picture. And he says, hey, start walking.
This is going to be fun. Before we talk about battles and victories, church, you got to hear the first call to this to board. Lead my people. You got to get on, you got to say yes.
There has to be a yes there. Like I said, it says you to lead these people, the Israelites across the Jordan River into the land I am given them. Here's the first thing I want to say. God did not give Joshua 40 different callings.
He gave him one mission. Started at the Jordan, but it didn't end there. Too many of us land, one plane, and then we wait for the next word when God already gave it. Church, you're not waiting on God for new instructions.
He's waiting on you to finish the last one. I think there's some people today that God has given, and he's given a mission too. He's given a word to. Has God ever given anybody a word in here and put it on their heart what he's called you to do, where you felt like he's called you to do.
He's given it already. And we're sitting here, oh, I'm just waiting on the Lord. He's faithful. I just, you know, I don't, good.
I'm just waiting on the Lord. And it's like, what are you waiting on if he's already given you the first mission? If he's already given you an assignment, you know, he spoke to you, you got it, you started carrying it, but maybe you set it down, whatever you did with it. But why do we sit down and then be like, all right, God, I need you to give me more instructions.
And he's like, I can't give you more than what I've already gave you, lead these people into the land. Everywhere you step, we learned this last week, everywhere you step, I'm giving you. If he's already said that, then what we have to be like, well, God, where can I step next? Give me clarity, Lord.
Shine light on the path in front of me of where to step next. He said, anywhere you step into the promise that he's given is what it's gonna be yours. Here, let me give you a little illustration. It'd be like a pilot who lands in a layover city, but thanks to the trips done.
You're not home yet. You're in a transition. Church, board again, there's more. Board again, there's more.
See Joshua heard the call, but to fulfill it, he had to board the plan and leave the gate. So this is the next step in Joshua's obedience flight plan. It's the take off. I'm gonna take you to Joshua three.
And we talked about this last week. We talked about the priest. Soon as the priest who carried the ark reached the Jordan, the water from upstream stopped blowing. Water's where at flood stage, we already talked about that.
But the priest stepped in before the miracle. They had to take a step first. Remember last week you had to get your feet first sometimes before the miracle happens. There has to be a step in faith.
There has to be something that continues on. He was given the call, hey, lead my people. And the first stop is to go across the Jordan, but it took a step into the water first. Your first yes, I believe this, and I wanna encourage you today.
Proves your willing to get on the plan, but it's only the beginning. Your first step is only the beginning. It's only the beginning. The Jordan wasn't the destination.
It was the runway to Jericho. He's given, I'm leading you into the land, right? I've given you the mission, the assignment. The first step was the Jordan, but it was only the runway.
He had to board again to go to Jericho. There's a constant yes, I don't know if you're seeing it yet, I hope by the end you see it, but there's a constant yes to the mission that God gave him that he's constantly, he's boarding again. He's not getting off the plane sitting in a terminal or in what next God, he already knows the mission. So he's getting back on the plane because he knows I'm going to somewhere else.
This place leads to somewhere else. This isn't the stop. It takes me somewhere. It takes me further to what God's calling me to do.
So one victory doesn't mean you arrived. Joshua crosses the Jordan. Church, you know what I believe? If it was some of us today, we'd be making T-shirts.
Hey, I survived the Jordan. What? What? We'd be stomping around, pushing on Facebook.
Like, what do I mean? I survived the Jordan. The reality was it's like we can't stop. We stop after one yes.
It's okay to be excited. I'm not saying that you can't be excited about a step, but I think a lot of times we stop and set camp up. That's a pretty cool thing that happened. But don't set up camp and start telling someone's T-shirts that you survived the Jordan when that was just the first step of the assignment.
See, it's pretty funny. I know something about Joshua is that he knew what was next. Joshua knew what was next. He knew that Jericho was next.
AI was after that. There was still territory to take. See, he understood that in this mission that God gave him, that there was so much for him to do. There was already an understanding that it's going to be my yeses that continues to lead me into the fullness of what God has for me.
See, different battles don't mean different callings. They mean you're still and the fight God gave you. I'm going to say it again because I don't know if you got it. Different battles don't mean different callings.
Different battle, but same callings, same assignment, same mission, it takes yes, obedience to step forward and keep walking in it. Your calling didn't change. It's the same assignment. I think there's so many of us that are we're lost in what the calling is.
Or we feel like we need a new calling. Or every other week, guys, gives us a different one. And when he's giving you one assignment, one mission, one calling and said, hey, keep walking it out. I got a plan for you and I need you to walk out of the assignment, I already gave you.
Y'all help me decide. It's like, I don't know if they didn't get coffee. Hey, there's coffee back here, free coffee. Church, come on.
Come on, say this with me. I'm not retiring. I'm rewarding. We got to stop retiring after one step, one victory, one excitement, one this.
We got to stop retiring and we got to get back on the plane. There's more. I want to jump over to the next destination one. Joshua's obedience in this mission in this Jericho.
Joshua 6, 6, 3. March around, I used everyone's favorite part. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days.
Church, do you know that the walls fell without a weapon? Only obedience? Seven days of marching, one day of shouting. See, when you board again, you may fight differently than before, but it's still the same assignment.
How you fight in some steps aren't going to work in other steps, but it doesn't mean you saw. It doesn't mean you quit. It doesn't mean you give up on the assignment that God has given you. It just looks different.
It's the same assignment, but you got to fight different. It's obedience that took this one. Take your man walk around once a day for six days. I'm out after two days, y'all.
I hate walking for fun, but I'm telling you, walk around. It was obedience. They were called to. It just took a different look than before.
See, after Jericho, Joshua faced an unexpected layover. This is as they're heading to AI. See, the initial defeat came because of hidden sin. A member of the tribe of Judah took some of the devoted things from Jericho that God had commanded be destroyed.
Specifically, he took a beautiful Babylonian robe. I don't know if I could pass off on that either. A Babylonian robe? Shoo.
200 shackles of silver and a bar of gold wane, 50 shackles. This act of disobedience brought God's anger against the whole nation. And the first attempt to take AI ended in failure. I believe Joshua was devastated.
But God revealed the cause. And once the sin was exposed and dealt with, through confession, judgment, and the removal of what was taken, the way forward opened back up again. Did y'all hear that? There was an act of disobedience that delayed the mission.
I know we don't want to talk about this. We are not there, so just hold up. There was a layover in the flight plan. I know some of y'all just think God's going to take you just go, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
Straight there, one way trip. You don't have no problems, you know, if it ain't good, it ain't God, all that stuff. But there's things that happen. And just a side note, because I went real deep into this, but it wasn't even Joshua.
It was somebody of his team that delayed it. But we are there. Israel has sinned. They have taken some of the devoted things.
And then it jumps down in eight. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you and go up and attack AI.
So again, in the layover of AI and Joshua's journey, there was defeat because of hidden sin. They deal with it, they board again and win the city. Some flights get delayed. That doesn't mean you cancel the trip.
We got to quit canceling the trip church. We get setbacks. We run into things along the way. And then we start questioning everything.
But just because this happens, you don't cancel the whole trip. You don't cancel. We're not just talking about a trip here. We're talking about the assignment the Lord has given him.
This is a big deal. We got to stop setting down and giving up on the mission that the Lord has given us just because we hit a setback. Better yet, because we hit a setback because of somebody else, not even because of what I was doing. I know that one's not going to be a crowd favorite this morning.
Let's see Joshua boards again. They correct that. They board again. See, Joshua didn't slow down.
Doubt with whatever they dealt with and kept it moving. There's disobedience to setback. They corrected it. And it kept moving too often.
Unbelievers hit a setback. They treated it like a full stop instead of delay. Instead of addressing the issue, they unpacking a place of disappointment. They start saying things like, maybe I'm this God.
Anybody say that in here before? Maybe I'm not called to this. They disengaged from serving. Stop praying with faith.
Do you hear what I said? Stop praying with faith. Because as I was right now, I know a lot of people pray. But I think a lot of people don't pray with faith, especially when we're disappointed, especially when these things happen.
We pray, but there's no faith behind it. It's just a. And then we start. I don't stop serving.
We start all these things. Disappointment leads to all these things, church. And you know what that leads us to? Avoid.
To stepping into new opportunities. See, once if you heard what I said, once the same was addressed, the mission continued. The call didn't change just because there was turbulence. Don't unpack and mope around.
Like your next gate is full of hope. Do you know who you serve, church? You serve a good God. You serve a faithful God.
If he promised it, I guarantee you. He's pulling through with it. And just because you had a little setback doesn't mean you stopped having faith in the one that gave you the promise. That means there's never ending hope when it comes to the man in the name of Jesus.
That if he said it, you best believe he's going to fulfill it. And he will give you everything you need to walk it out. This I ain't doing it, church. Come on, help me out.
I said there's hope. How do we get so discouraged in the plan that the God gave us that we don't step up to the gate knowing that there's nothing but hope. And it said that earlier when we read, I'll be with you. I'll be with you.
You know what that told me? That even in the disobedience and setback he was still with him. Because the moment that they addressed it, it went back on. It never stopped being on.
They just stopped. How much time do I got? I'm going to tell you just that I'm going to make a quick point here because this was cool. And Joshua 14, there's a man named Caleb.
He makes this a he. He's a great example of not retiring after one yes, something that we're talking about. And he makes a statement that I love so much. I'm just going to tell you, he says, give me back that mountain.
He says, give me this mountain. See, he spied out the land at 40 and held the promise in his heart for 45 years. At 85 years old, he says, I'm still ready for battle. Give me my mountain.
See, Caleb boarded again. 40 years, y'all. And Caleb boarded again. At 40, he spied out the land and held that promise.
And he boarded again. Even after, I'm sure, others doubted and decades have passed. I want to encourage somebody today. Delayed obedience isn't dead obedience.
Delayed obedience isn't dead obedience. You serve a faithful God that you may have delayed, but there's nothing stopping you from boarding again. And stepping back up and saying, give me that mountain. Keep saying yes, church.
Romans 1 17 says this, the righteous shall live by faith. From faith to faith. See Joshua didn't just obey once. He obeyed over and over.
Jericho, yes. A.I., yes. Southern campaign, yes. There was all kinds of yeses that he kept saying yes, yes, yes, yes.
Every act of obedience became a runway for greater revelation. I will. Every act of obedience became a runway for greater revelation. Every yes that he gave.
Every time he said yes, every time he stepped in, there was greater revelation. There was more. There was more. Say, there's more church.
Are you hearing me this morning? Are you seeing Joshua in the assignment that I gave him in his faithfulness to continue to obey? To walk it out. To keep saying yes.
To keep going. To keep going. There's a constant, yes. It says from faith to faith.
I guess that what that means. You got to be somewhere in faith and go to faith. Faith is not maintained by what you've seen. It's sustained by who you keep saying yes to.
Faith is not maintained by what you've seen. It's sustained by who you keep saying yes to. See when you say yes again church, it's like the wheels are just leaving the runway and you're gaining this altitude and you're just, you're climbing to the next thing God wants to show you. Like your yes takes you somewhere.
It's not just a yes and nothing happens. You're saying yes to the one that gave you the plan, the greatest thing that you'll ever encounter. When you say yes to that, he takes you up to the place where you start to see the other things that he has for you. Phew.
That excites me. See the next thing he does is he expands the territory. This is the obedience flight plan. See this is the southern campaign in Joshua 10.
This is one of my favorites if you guys remember. We did a, it wasn't really a planned series but it was faithful promises and it just came out. Unstopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down for about half a day. That's in Joshua 10.13.
Yeah, put that over there. See Joshua, he leads multiple back-to-back battles. The sun stays still in the fight. And obedience opens the runway for miracles you never would have seen if you stayed at the gate.
If you don't keep moving, if you don't keep it, like you got to keep obeying. He said it at the beginning, he gave him the process and he gave him the command. He says if you do this, if you obey, you will be successful. And throughout his entire journey, every time he says yes, look at the Lord showing up.
Revealing himself, the sun stays still. I don't want to go back because I'll go full-wind to preaching that again but that blew me away. But it stayed in the sky for them to finish what they were going after. Obedience opens the runway for miracles you never would have seen if you stayed at the gate.
See, even after all this, this is a lot. Understand this is Joshua going through like his entire story. But there's still more. Say there's more.
Like the Lord showed me, there was so much more. There's more. There's more. There's more.
This will be the final approach stage. The Northern Campaign, Joshua 11. Joshua took this entire land. I didn't really think about it until now but as I hear your pages going, you guys are probably all over the place.
I do like the sound. But this is in Joshua 11 of the journey. Joshua took the entire land, verse 16, just as the Lord had directed Moses. They conquered the Northern Kings.
Joshua takes all the land that the Lord promised. He didn't land in unpacked halfway church. He flew into the mission was complete. He didn't stop at these places and set up camp.
He wasn't just focused on one victory. See, that word that the Lord has spoke to you, there's something so special about it. And I think that not just taking the yes and the first step but the whole process through, he's got so many other things that he wants to reveal to you and show to you about what that is but what he wants most is you to get and arrive at the end of it. There's a mission, there's an assignment.
He wants you to get to the end because there's something there. There's something so special there. What if we would just start getting serious about completing the mission the Lord has given us? What if that became so important to us?
Not just to obey this one and he has come. Stop or deal with some things and stop. But be so focused on the mission that I'm going to get there no matter what. And I'm going to obey because it says if I just obey then he's always there with me.
I don't, Church, you don't need nothing else. If you got him with you, what are you waiting at the gate for? What are some of these things that stopped you to unpack there? There's more.
Get off the plane, get to the next gate and keep going. There's more. We finally arrive. This is the last step of our flight plan.
I should have gave you an understanding of a flight plan maybe but we're arriving now. We're dividing the land. This is Joshua 13 through 21 but not one. This is Joshua 21 45, the very last verse.
It says not one of all the Lord's good promises to Israel failed. Everyone was fulfilled. Every tribe receives inheritance. Assignment is complete.
In the middle member of the layover at A.I. and the disobedience to delay all those things. We're all of that. Not one of all the Lord's good promises to Israel failed.
Everyone was fulfilled. We serve a good God, a faithful God that when partnered with him in the movement but with obedience, it was completely fulfilled. The assignment was fulfilled completely. See when you keep boarding again, you don't just live in the promise.
You leave it for others. I want to point out here because I got time. When we were reading Romans 1 17 from faith to faith, Paul's quoting Habakkah 2 4. I believe that he's doing that to show us the light God called us to is one that starts and continues in faith.
It starts and continues in faith. It's not just having faith, it's progressing in faith. It's like steps of a journey. It's not a single leap.
It's a continual walk. See, I think it suggests a chain reaction is what it does. Your initial faith to believe for salvation, ongoing faith to believe in every step after, and each yes to God builds on the last one, leading to greater revelation and deeper maturity. Faith to faith.
Faith to step into the Jordan. Faith to march around Jericho. Faith to go back to AI after failure. I think some people might just need the faith today to go back to the thing that you failed in.
You might just need to go back to it. They say, the Lord promised this to me. Like, Caleb, give me this mountain. I'm going to take what the Lord promised me.
And just because there was failure doesn't mean you can't correct it and go back because like we just read, when they corrected it and moved forward, well, they got to the end. Does anybody here want to finish the assignment they believe God has placed on their life? Faith to keep battling in the south and north to every promise was fulfilled. Faith to finish the mission.
See, he didn't say, Paul didn't say, the righteous live by comfort or convenience. So they live by faith. From faith to faith. Every act of obedience becomes a runway for greater revelation.
Look at it this way. Your yes today fuels your yes for tomorrow. It says, is revealed. I'm not going to try to pronounce that Greek word, but in that scripture is revealed.
It means being uncovered or continually revealing. It's not a one-time download. It's a progressive revelation. Continue, continue, continue.
See, every step of faith reveals another layer of who he is and who you are. This isn't, I believe he did the Old Testament because this isn't a new idea. It's always been faith over formula. The word live means to continue living.
A way of life, not a one-time event. Did y'all hear what I said? The word live means to continue living. A way of life, not a one-time event.
Here's what I believe obedience builds a legacy. He didn't stop till the land was divided and the promise was fulfilled. He didn't live off of one miracle. He didn't have a steward momentum until it became a movement.
He didn't wait for a new word. He finished the last one. Kept going, kept going, kept going. The generation after him got to live in the fullness of the promises because he kept boarding again.
That doesn't excite you. I don't know what will. See, I talked a little bit about wholeness. We've been talking about wholeness.
I think that wholeness is a round-trip journey. See, Jesus obeyed even unto death, then returned in resurrection. Obedience may cost you, but it carries resurrection on the return flight. We don't like the word obedience.
I actually struggle to be like, I don't think I want to do a whole message on obedience. But did you hear what I said, Church? When we look at it from that place, the one that we follow, like Jesus himself, it cost him something. But look what came around on the return flight because of his obedience.
My goodness. One assignment, many steps. I'm going to just run us through everything we talked about before I close. And it was crossing the Jordan.
He didn't stop. Mission wasn't complete. That one step of obedience positioned him for the next. Two, conquer Jericho.
He kept moving because the assignment was never to take Jericho, it was to take the land. So he didn't stop in Jericho. Three, recovering from failure at AI. So he set back on to the end.
They're a part of continuing in obedience. Four, southern and northern campaign. Five, dividing the land. So the flight plan of Joshua's obedience through the entire thing that we just looked at.
From boarding the gate, taking off, first destination lay over, expanding territory, final approach, and arriving. Did you see that from the obedience of Joshua continuing to say yes? Getting back on, no matter what it looked like to finish the mission and completing it. I wrote down a couple quotes.
God's not giving you a new ticket. Gary booked the flight. Stop asking for the gate number when you're already at the gate. There were different challenges along the way.
Jericho's walls as the feet and recovery. They give you a night deception, battles with multiple kings. But those were just chapters in the same mission. There wasn't a variety of different callings.
There were chapters in the same mission. We got to stop treating God's assignment like short term projects when they're lifelong missions. We obey once and stop and wait for clarity when the reality God already gave. And he's waiting for us to keep walking it out.
We got to stop treating challenges like stop signs and look at them like stretching points. Many believers think a change in scenery means a change in calling. But often it just means a new step in the same assignment. Guys, do you see the constant here about the assignment from Joshua?
And that there wasn't just, he didn't need, he keep needing God to repeat what the assignment was. He didn't need that. He just kept saying yes to get to the end goal of what the assignment was that God gave him. Things changed, battles looked different.
He fought him differently, had to adjust, had to do different things. And there's so much more that I couldn't possibly touch on that Joshua. He had to walk through getting to this promise. But he stayed on mission.
He kept saying yes. He kept trusting God that he'd be with him everywhere he went. He kept saying yes. He kept saying yes.
He kept saying yes. He kept saying yes. Joshua boarded the call, took off through the Jordan. Remember last week he marked God's facefulness with stones, marched around Jericho to the walls fell, face defeat, fought battle after battle until the sun stood still, conquered the north without unpacking halfway, and landed in the promised land, leaving inheritance for the next generation.
Church, what's your boarding call that the Lord has given you? I'm going to get ready and close. I gave you guys boarding passes today. And I want you guys to do something for me, if you will.
And if you just don't have one, you got a piece of paper, whatever it is, but I want us to do something. I want to activate us today, Church, and the call that God has given us. On the back of that boarding pass, on the front of that boarding pass, what's it say? I'm boarding again into purpose.
There's more. Church, somebody needs to know today there's more. Listen, maybe you unpack somewhere and you need to pack back up and get to the gate because the mission's not over yet. Maybe you've had a setback because of disobedience.
And maybe you just need to correct that and get back on to the path because the Lord is faithful. There's hope at the gate that you're waiting there standing by. You don't need a new ticket, you don't need clarity, you don't need nothing. He's just calling you to keep stepping and get stepping back into what he already called you to.
You need a board again. Board again. He's gave you a mission. He's calling, maybe today he's giving you the mission.
And your yes is the starting place. And this was encouraging you to let you know that, hey, you're going to be going through a lot, but the Lord's faithful. That if you keep saying yes, you're going to get there. If I just keep saying yes, because I know what the Lord has called me to, I'm going to get and I'm going to fulfill the mission and assignment that he's placed on my life.
Some people need to give their yes again. And that's okay. So I want you to do something that you got that boarding pass. I want you just right down on the back of it.
What my next yes is. I don't know. I asked the Holy Spirit right now in this moment, Lord, what is my next yes? Listen, I don't know what it is, but I'm going to just expand this a little more.
Maybe it's a yes to the marriage that you're in. Like I just feel God impression on my heart that someone needs to say yes to the relationship of the marriage that they committed to. That your yes, that your yes is so important. Maybe it's other relationships.
I don't know what it is, but I'm telling you what's your next yes. Write that down. Write down the yes. For some of you, God's already given you.
He's already given you a mission that you've said yes to and unpacked. Write that down because I want you to know here in a minute, we're going to stand up and you're going to board that gate again. You've got that pass. You don't need nothing else, Church.
He said, give them a card that says boarding pass on it so they know that they can stand up and walk back into that yes because they got everything they need. So Church today, I promise if you believe this and you'll say yes again, you can board that plane and take back off to continue on the assignment and the mission that the Lord has given you.